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Definition: ASCRIBING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To attribute or impute. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To accredit, allow or authorize. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To allocate, assign or allot. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To impart or bestow. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To accuse, impeach, incriminate, inculpate or indict. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To attach, affix or append. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To deliver, inject or furnish.[Eve - graph theoretic]
8. Present participle conjugation of the verb ascribe.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(ascribe)
1. Attribute or credit to.[Wordnet].
2. 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.[Websters].
3. To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: ascribing, ascribed, ascribes, ascriber, ascribers, ascribingly and ascribedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Ascribing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Specialty Definition: ASCRIBING

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] Attributing; imputing; alleging to belong.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Verb] Present participle of ascribe. (references)

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Definition: ASCRIBING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To attribute or impute. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To accredit, allow or authorize. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To allocate, assign or allot. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To impart or bestow. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To accuse, impeach, incriminate, inculpate or indict. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To attach, affix or append. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To deliver, inject or furnish.[Eve - graph theoretic]
8. Present participle conjugation of the verb ascribe.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(ascribe)
1. Attribute or credit to.[Wordnet].
2. 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.[Websters].
3. To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: ascribing, ascribed, ascribes, ascriber, ascribers, ascribingly and ascribedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "ASCRIBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Specialty Definition: ASCRIBING

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Verb] Attributing; imputing; alleging to belong.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary[Verb] Present participle of ascribe. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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