ascription

[Lat. ascriptio = an addition in writing: from ascribo (ASCRIBE); or from ad to, and scriptio = the act of writing; scribo to scrape with a sharp point,... write.] to 1. The act of attributing, imputing, or a igning, as an effect to a cause, or qualities or actions to any being; the state of being attributed. that noble subsequent life which would render simply impo ible impo ible the ascription to Faraday of anything unfair."- Tyndall : Frag. of Science, xii. 357. 326 2. That which is ascribed.