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    [Verb]  | "as*cribe" | \ ə-ˈskrīb \


    1: to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, from Latin ascribere, from ad- + scribere to write {mat|scribe|};

    [Idiom]  | "ascribe (something) to" 


    1: to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with (something or someone) : assign, credit, or blame

    [Verb]  | "ascribe" 


    1: to explain (something) as being the result of something else;


      * e.g., " ... ascribed their stunning military victory to good intelligence beforehand "



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     [ "ascribe" ]

    1:  To credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute.

      * e.g.,  ... I ascribed her as a sexy fox with no brains who needs to hop in my bed and play Where's Waldo?. 

     [ "ascribe" ]

    2:  To attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic.

     [ "ascribing" ]

    1: Allocate to as being causal

      * e.g.,  ... Relations exists between need for achievement, ascribing and prescription for success and failure, beliefs with regards to abilities and self worth. 

     [ "planetary-ascribed biological determinism" ]

    1: A term used to jokingly describe the pseudoscience of astrology, first used and popularized by Katya Zamolodchikova on the YouTube series UNHhhh

      * e.g.,  ... Rachel is such a nutjob that she actually believes in planetary-ascribed biological determinism. 

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