ASCRIBE
impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
(verb) attribute or credit to; “We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare”; “People impute great cleverness to cats”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
ascribe (third-person singular simple present ascribes, present participle ascribing, simple past and past participle ascribed)
(transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
(transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
(nonstandard, with to) To believe in or agree with; subscribe.
Synonyms
• attribute
• impute
Anagrams
• Brescia, carbies, caribes
Source: Wiktionary
As*cribe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ascribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ascribing.]
Etym: [L. ascribere, adscribere, to ascribe; ad + scribere to write:
cf. OF. ascrire. See Scribe.]
1. 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.
The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem.
Addison.
2. To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or
allege to belong.
Syn.
– To Ascribe, Attribute, Impute. Attribute denotes, 1. To refer
some quality or attribute to a being; as, to attribute power to God.
2. To refer something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a
backward spring to icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in
both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually
denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general
literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unworthy motives.
The theological sense of impute is not here taken into view.
More than good-will to me attribute naught. Spenser.
Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit. Pope.
And fairly quit him of the imputed blame. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition