单词 | adscribe |
释义 | adscribev. Now rare. 1. transitive. To assign, credit, attribute (something) to a person, cause, etc.; = ascribe v. II.Now chiefly in translations. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > assign as properly relating to ascribe1382 titlec1425 adscribe1534 credit1563 arrogate1584 to give a person credit for1641 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute puta1382 applya1393 suppose?a1425 ascribec1475 attach?1531 attribute1533 adscribe1534 assign?1541 allude1561 repose1561 predicate1614 1534 G. Joye Subuersion Moris False Found. f. xxviii Thei wolde chalenge and adscrybe to their selfe this pryuilege and honour aboue cryste and his apostles. 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 252 He adscribes them to the same cause. 1789 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (new ed.) XIV. li. 200 The accession of Omar (24 July, AD 634) , to whose reign the conquest of Damascus is unanimously adscribed. 1825 Let. 25 Mar. in G. F. Martens & F. W. A. Murhard Nouveau Recueil de Traités d'Alliance (1828) IV. 708 Great Britain..cannot justly accept the praise which Mr. Zea is willing to adscribe to her in this respect. 1904 Publ. Astron. Lab. Groningen ii. 82 The phenomenon can be (and has been) adscribed to different causes. 1986 Jrnl. Chem. Physics 84 4107/1 This overestimation of the bandwidths is a quite common feature, and cannot be adscribed to higher order processes. 1992 Revista Medicina 52 235 Most of the groups can be adscribed to one of these cases with sufficient precision. 2. transitive. To add (esp. in writing) to a text or document; = ascribe v. I.In quot. 1864 apparently: to add to a list of names. ΚΠ 1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. D.viiiv To wryte an hystorie, to the whiche I entende to adscribe this title de Antiquitate Britannica. 1616 B. Jonson Sejanus (new ed.) v. i, in Wks. I. 418 Beare it [sc. an Edict] to my fellow Consul to adscribe [1605 ascribe]. 1704 W. Leybourn Math. Inst. i. 26 If to a Circle Two Right Lines be adscribed from a Point without. 1864 G. M. Hopkins Let. 14 Aug. (1938) xxxiv. 64 I am adscribed third into Alfred Erskine and Bond. 1869 Ladies' Compan. 35 319/2 Some snob of the first water had, undoubtedly, by thus adscribing his illustrious name, sought to achieve imperishable fame. 1911 L. Dudley Egyptian Elements Legend Body & Soul 113 The theory that..the passages due to the Plautine Revival were adscribed in the margin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1534 |
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