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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ascribe/əˈskrʌɪb/

▶verb (ascribe something to) attribute something to (a cause, person, or period).

■ regard a quality as belonging to.

– derivatives
ascribable adjective,
ascription noun.

– origin ME: from L. ascribere, from ad- ‘to’ + scribere ‘write’.

'ascribe' also found in these Oxford entries:

credit - impute - make - part - valorize

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