Dictionary
as•cribe
Pronunciation: (u-skrīb'), [key]—
v.t., -cribed, -crib•ing.
1. to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute:
The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
2. to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic:
They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.