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verb (v)

• attribute or credit to(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  assign, attribute, impute
  

  source: wordnet30
• To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.(verb)

  source: webster1913