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• Strange bangings in the old house were ascribed to a poltergeist.From the entry banging
• The oldest known system of pericopes in the Western Church is ascribed to Jerome.From the entry pericope
• Authorism of the work is ascribed to Cicero.From the entry authorism
• Are the characteristics that are ascribed to lingua franca communication general lingua franca features?2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “The aim of this book” (chapter 4), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John…. From the entry rather
• In past societies based on ascribed status, formal rules and proclamations regulated lifestyle conventions.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry sumptuary law
• Quaylisms (whether real or ascribed) impress by their extreme degree of witlessness.2012, Gary Saul Morson, “[Witticisms and Witlessisms] Stupidity Shines”, in The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, Stanford…. From the entry Quaylism
• In the past and perhaps still today, similar syndromes have been ascribed to nutritional deprivation.2010, Lewis P. Rowland with Paul H. Gordon, “Hereditary and Acquired Spastic Paraplegia”, in Lewis P. Rowland, Timothy A. Pedley, editors…. From the entry myeloneuropathy
• St Botolph's parish records ascribed three deaths to 'mother', an old name for the uterus.1979, Thomas R. Forbes, “The changing face of death in London”, in Charles Webster, editor, Health, Medicine and Mortality in the…. From the entry mother
• We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.1956–1960, Richard Stanley Peters, “2: Motives and Motivation”, in The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition…. From the entry impute
• But at first I thought Mr Colville was ascribing to me an air of sanctity.1930, Adrian Bell, Corduroy, Faber and Faber. From the entry wholly
• "However, I have received two messages to-night, and I can only ascribe to them an extra-corporeal origin."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry extracorporeal
• Extensive remains have been found in Central and Southern Arabia, which have been ascribed to these Minæans.1913, Theodore Edward Dowling, chapter III, in Gaza: A City of many Battles, page 40. From the entry Minæans
• The second is ascribed to the Magnalia, the third is out of its own specifics.1910, Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy, Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologist, page 340. From the entry superquintessence
• Undocuqueer immigrants ascribe meaning to their experiences by producing alternate subjectivities and subject positions that resist multiple axes of oppression.2018, Jesus Cisneros, “Working with the Complexity and Refusing to Simplify: Undocuqueer Meaning Making at the Intersection of LGBTQ and…. From the entry undocuqueer
• Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and ineffective.2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry abjection
• You can't ascribe such a meltdown only to injuries.2002 November 19, Olivier Hagué, “BOOYAH !!!! NOT !!!!”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.col-avalanche (Usenet), retrieved 16 Apr 2022. From the entry unijambist
• These syntacticizations revolve around the degrees of definiteness ascribed to the grammatical subject and its realization as 'causer'.1986, Dieter Kastovsky, Aleksander Szwedek, Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries: volumes 1 and 2, Walter de Gruyter…. From the entry syntacticization
• It has no obvious distinguishing characteristics, and therefore people are constantly ascribing to it the characteristics of other similar species.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry distinguishing
• The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded.1981, Linguistic Typology, page 404. From the entry ambiposition
• So far no indisputable function has been ascribed to any of the following cell types except rhabdiferous cells.1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges, page 70. From the entry rhabdiferous
• Shirk may be committed in ascribing to other than God functions of protection, providence, knowledge, worshippability, that belong only unto God.1959 July, Kenneth Cragg, “The Meaning of Ẓulm in the Qurʾān”, in The Muslim World, volume XLIX, number 3, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Blackwell…. From the entry worshippability
• We all blame our weaknesses on anterity and ascribe our virtues and strong features to our own wisdom and goodness.1918 November 25, William Brady, “Health Talks”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LI, number 163, Atlanta, Ga., page four, column 8. From the entry anterity
• Such practices are ascribed to many nations.1904, T. R. Jernigan, “Family Law”, in China's Business Methods and Policy, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 150. From the entry Kin-sha Kiang
• There are many names QAnon conspiracy theorists ascribe to the day of reckoning they believe, perpetually and without any substantiation, to be imminent.2018 December 5, Molly Roberts, “QAnon Says Dec. 5 Will Be Banner Day for Conspiracy Theory, 'The Storm' has Yet to Arrive”, in Newsweek. From the entry day of reckoning
• It underscores the “Islamorealism” that people like Feiner and Swiderski, in their politically correct bubble, prefer to deny and ascribe instead to “Islamophobia."2012 September 5, Mark Tapson, “Siding with Savages”, in Front Page Magazine. From the entry Islamorealism
• Tierney ascribes presidential powers to himself.2007 January 26, Robin Finn, “Distinguishing the Remarkable From the Merely Old”, in New York Times. From the entry noncombative
• Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.2005, Donald Bloxham, The Great Game of Genocide, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023…. From the entry Armenian
• It views humans as above our outside of nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or “use,” value to nature.1996, Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry deep ecology
• Some decisions of poor quality that turn out to be fiascoes might be ascribed primarily to mistakes made by just one man, the Chief Executive.1973 May 28, Irving L. Janis, “Groupthink in Washington”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2021. From the entry groupthink
• Some say that such conditions of transitory hairfall, usually ascribed to passing conditions of lowered health, are in reality due to seborrhœa.1945, Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill, The Hair and Scalp, page 81. From the entry seborrhœa
• Older societies built their hierarchies on ascribed status, where individuals received their social ranking based on predetermined criteria, such as age, ethnic group, occupation, and gender.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry ascribed status
• Unlike Freud's formulation of hysteria as ideogenic, the early Independents ascribed pathology to exogenous causes (that is, inadequate maternal function vs. the baby's hostile predisposition or fantasies).2018, Paul Williams, John Keane, Sira Dermen, Independent Psychoanalysis Today. From the entry ideogenic
• The village emerged from a number of “endships” and the form of the village can be ascribed to "frontage" development along the roads linking these “endships”.2013 October 11, Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden, Reconstituting Rurality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry endship
• How many lucky winners, Regnault lamented, boastfully ascribe their success to wise decisions while in reality their triumph was nothing more than the fortunate outcome of random events?2011, George G. Szpiro, Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation. From the entry fortunate

Meaning of ascribe

1. verb To regard as arising from a specified cause or source.
2. verb To attribute (a book, painting, or any other work of art or literature) to a writer or creator.
3. verb To believe in or agree with; to subscribe.

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How do you use ascribe in a sentence?

Ascribe is used as a verb. For example: “One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.”

What is a short sentence with ascribe?

“Tierney ascribes presidential powers to himself.”

What does ascribe mean?

Ascribe means to regard as arising from a specified cause or source.