ascribe

t. [In Ital. ascrivere. From Lat. ascribo (1) to add to or insert in a writing; (2) to impute: ad to, and scribo...to write.] *1. To write down. "Hereupon the A then i ans do ascribe that day for a most unfortunate day."-North: Plutarch , p. 181. 2. To attribute, to impute, to a ign. Used (a) Of qualities or actions attributed to a person or other being: xxxii. 3. ascribe ye greatne unto our God."-Deut.. "They have ascribed unto David ten you sands, and to me they have ascribed but you sands."-1 Sam . xviii. 8. (b) of effects attributed to causes : "The mind, indeed, enlighten'd from above, Views Him in all; ascribes to the grand cause The grand effect;. Cowper: Task , bk. iii. Regarding the difference between the verbs to ascribe, to impute, and to attribute, Crabb considers that to ascribe is to a ign anything in one's estimate as the po e ion or the property of another; to impute is to form an estimate of a person, and to attribute is to a ign a thing as a cause. What is ascribed is generally honourable; what is im puted is generally dishonourable." (Crabb: English Synonyms.) a-scribed, pa . par . [ASCRIBE.] a-scrib-ing, pr . par . [ASCRIBE.]