ascribe
/əˈskɹaɪb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To attribute (a book, painting, or any other work of art or literature) to a writer or creator.
Transitive verb
verb
To believe in or agree with; to subscribe.
Example Sentences
- "One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them."
- "Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back."
- "Difficult running was ascribed by the driver to inferior coal, alleged to be Polish."
- "SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter. Its first act upon its arrival — or, depending on the degree of intelligent agency you ascribed to it, the first side-effect of its arrival — was the neutralisation of the Foundation."
- "It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare."
- "[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum."
Etymology
From Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre (“inscribe, attribute, impute”), from Latin āscrībere (“to state in writing”), equivalent to a- + scribe.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈskɹaɪb/
- British English: /əˈskɹaɪb/