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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ASCRIP'TION, n. The act of ascribing, imputing or affirming to belong.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: attribution, ascription]
2: 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" [syn: attribution, ascription]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Late Latin ascription-, ascriptio, from Latin, written addition, from ascribere Date: 1598 1. the act of ascribing ; attribution 2. arbitrary placement (as at birth) in a particular social status

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of ascribing. 2 a preacher's words ascribing praise to God at the end of a sermon. Etymology: L ascriptio -onis (as ASCRIBE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ascription As*crip"tion, n. [L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See Ascribe.] The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Ascribing, attributing, referring, charging, laying, setting down, imputing. 2. [pl.] Praises, adorations, magnifyings, extollings, homage, Magnificats, Glorias, Te Deums.