Ascribe Definition

ə-skrīb

ascribed, ascribes, ascribing

verb

ascribed, ascribes, ascribing

To regard as arising from a specified cause or source.

American Heritage

To assign (something) to a supposed cause; impute; attribute.

Webster's New World

To regard as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time.

Ascribed the poem to Shakespeare.

American Heritage

To regard (something) as belonging to or coming from someone.

Poems that were ascribed to Homer.

Webster's New World

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

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

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Origin of Ascribe

From Old French ascrivre (“inscribe, attribute, impute”), from Latin āscrībō, from ad (“to”) + scrībō (“write”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrep-, *skreb- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Old English screpan (“to scrape, scratch”).

From Wiktionary
Middle English ascriben from Old French ascrivre from Latin ascrībere ad- ad- scrībere to write skrībh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition