Today's Word "ascribe"
To attribute as to a source or cause
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ascribe \uh-SKRYB\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To attribute, as to a source or cause; as, "they ascribed the poor harvest to drought." 2 : To attribute, as a quality; to consider or allege to belong; as, "ascribed jealousy to the critics."
"Far be it from me to ascribe a divine purpose to anything, particularly when I examine the sea of disingenuous faces I see below me at the present." -- David Storey, 'Saville'
Ascribe is from Latin ascribere, "to write in, to add in writing, hence to attribute," from ad- + scribere, "to write."
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