ascription (redirected from ascriptions)

as·crip·tion  (-skrpshn)

n.

1. The act of ascribing.

2. A statement that ascribes.

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[Latin ascrpti, ascrptin-, addendum, from ascrptus, past participle of ascrbere, to ascribe; see ascribe.]

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as·criptive adj.

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Noun	1.	ascription - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" attribution categorisation, categorization, sorting, classification - the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories zoomorphism - the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god
	2.	ascription - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" attribution categorisation, categorization, sorting, classification - the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories animatism - the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones imputation - the attribution to a source or cause; "the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously" externalisation, externalization - attributing to outside causes