Ascribe
[ə'skraɪb]
Definition
(v. t.) To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
(v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Attribute, assign, refer, charge, lay, IMPUTE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Assign, attribute, impute, refer, render, allege, charge
ANT:Deny, refuse, exclude, dissociate, disconnect, dissever
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Definition
v.t. to attribute impute or assign.—adj. Ascrib′able.—n. Ascrip′tion act of ascribing or imputing: any expression of ascribing or any formula for such like the one ascribing glory to God repeated at the end of a sermon.
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Examples
- The Commission does not say, and I for one, ascribe the silence to the American preoccupation with immediate, definite, tangible interests. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Let us consider to what principle we can ascribe these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I do not ascribe to the will that unintelligible necessity, which is supposed to lie in matter. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Other French racing bicycles were no doubt in existence, but there is no history which can ascribe any truly constructive innovations in motorcycle making to any foreign country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The reason, why we ascribe a place to them, shall be: considered afterwards. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For as like effects imply like causes, we must always ascribe the causation to the circumstance, wherein we discover the resemblance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To this we must ascribe the fact that there is no temple-state stage, no stage of priest kings, in the Greek record. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The vision of another world is ascribed to Er, the son of Armenius, who is said by Clement of Alexandria to have been Zoroaster. Plato. The Republic.
- Plate printing is a very old art, the plate printing press having been ascribed to Tomasso Finiguerra, of Florence, in 1460. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There were times when I would have given my right hand to possess the treasures he ascribed to me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- One of Boyle's critics, a professor at Louvain, while admitting that air had weight and elasticity, denie d that these were sufficient to account for the results ascribed to them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Commonly, this is ascribed to the geographical conditions under which they lived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Though the honor of inventing the art of wireless telegraphy is generally ascribed to Marconi, this is to give him more credit than he deserves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have observed, that our approbation of those, who are possess d of the advantages of fortune, may be ascribed to three different causes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- You honour me too much in ascribing to me a degree of intimacy with Miss Fanshawe I have not the felicity to enjoy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They have named some of them; but there has been no idea of setting forth various achievements or of ascribing distinctive merits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From which continued perception, it ascribes a continued existence and identity to the object. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To _temperance_ he ascribes his long-continued health, and what is still left to him of a good constitution. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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