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as•cribe



Pronunciation: (u-skrīb'), [key]
—v.t., -cribed, -crib•ing.
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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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