单词 | ascribe |
释义 | ascribe —ascribable, adj. /euh skruyb"/, v.t., ascribed, ascribing. 1. to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians. 2. to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic. [1400-50; late ME < L ascribere, equiv. to a- A-5 + scribere to SCRIBE2; r. ME ascrive < MF. See SHRIVE] Syn. 1. See attribute. |
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