What does ascribe mean?
Ascribe means (transitive) To regard as arising from a specified cause or source..
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/əˈskɹaɪb/ · verb
(transitive) To regard as arising from a specified cause or source..
One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.
Difficult running was ascribed by the driver to inferior coal, alleged to be Polish.
SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter. Its first act upon its arrival — or, depending on the degree of intelligent agency you ascribed to it, the first side-effect of its arrival — was the neutralisation of the Foundation.
It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
A survey of the literature reveals that many who have commented on the signaling of animals ascribe to the view that all of their communicative signals are manifestations of emotion or affect.
If we take a holistic view of human beings, we ascribe to the idea that humans are multidimensional and that they are greater than the sum of their parts – for example, their physical, psychological and spiritual aspects.
Use ascribe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ascribe means (transitive) To regard as arising from a specified cause or source..
Common synonyms include accredit, ascribe, attach, attribute.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
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