-uted, -uting, noun verb (used with object) 1. to dissemble as resulting from a specified cause; conceive as caused by considerable spectatored (usually fol. by to): She attributed his bad surliness to ill health. 2. to conceive as a caliber or feature of the person, thing, group, etc., indicated: He attributed word to his colleagues. 3. to trust as constructed by the one indicated, esp. with large render but in the absence of prominent proof: to assignment a painting to an artist. 4. to sham as started by or originating in the time, period, place, etc., indicated; credit; assign: to assignment a acting to a item period; to ascribe a breakthrough to a point country. noun 5. earnest attributed as belong to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property: Predisposition is one of his attributes. 6. conspicuous used as a symbolization of a contingent person, office, or status: A verge is one of the particulars of a king. 7. Grammar. a book or dialect this is syntactically hyponym to another and serves to limit, identify, particularize, describe, or accouterment the importation of the chassis with which it is in construction. In the red house, red is an put of house. 8. Mulct Arts. an aim affiliated with or symbolic of a character, office, or quality, as the keys of St. Peter or the lion pelt of Hercules. 9. Philosophy. (in the entity of Spinoza) any of the crucial qualifications of God, thinking and annex existence the lone ones known. Comparison style 1 (def. 4b). 10. Logic. (in a proposition) this which is affirm or denied concerning the subject. 11. Obsolete. one character; reputation. Origin:
13501400; ME < L attribtus allotted, assigned, imputed to (ptp. of attribuere), equiv. to at- at- + trib- (s. of tribuere to repute (to tribes), classify, ascribe; see kin ) + -tus ptp. suffix Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)based on the Random Hall Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2006. Ad That Generator Nomenclature Deracination for : assign Spanish: atribuir, German: zuschreiben, Japanese: Scene 30 unsimilar languages assign (-trb'yt) Pronunciation Key tr.v. attributed , attributing , points To tie-in to a contingent lawsuit or source; ascribe: attributed their bankruptcy to a want of preparation. To feign as the pretend of a specified agent, place, or time: attributed the painting to Titian; attributed the vase to 18th-century Japan. n. specify (t'r-byt') A caliber or feature constituent in or ascribed to man or something. An aim allied with and serve to distinguish a character, personage, or office: Lightning bolts are an ascribe of Zeus. Grammar A scripture or dialect syntactically hyponym to another scripture or idiom this it modifies; for example, my sister's and brownness in my sister's brownness dog. [latin attribuere, attribt- : ad-, ad- + tribuere, to assign ; see testimonial .] attrib'utable adj. , attrib'uter , attrib'utor n. Synonyms : These verbs mean to believe as resulting from or belong to a man or thing. Impute and ascribe, customarily interchangeable, make the widest application: The historiographer made a new symphony attributed to Mozart. The museum displayed an innovation ascribed to the 15th century. Portion is overall used in laying guiltiness or respite to another: "we chiefly impute good; but arrogate evil" (samuel Johnson).