ascribe

To ascribe is to give credit for something to a specific cause or person.

(verb)

An example of the word ascribe could be when a scientist is noted for a discovery or invention.

See ascribe in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to assign (something) to a supposed cause; impute; attribute
to regard (something) as belonging to or coming from someone: poems that were ascribed to Homer

Origin: ME ascriben (also ascriven < OFr ascriv-, stem of ascrire) < L ascribere < ad-, to + scribere, to write: see scribe

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See ascribe in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb as·cribed, as·crib·ing, as·cribes

To attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin: “Other people ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism” (Daniel Pinchbeck). See Synonyms at attribute.
To assign as a quality or characteristic: was quick to ascribe jealousy to her critics.

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Origin: Middle English ascriben

Origin: , from Old French ascrivre

Origin: , from Latin ascrībere

Origin: : ad-, ad-

Origin: + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots

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