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The Collaborative International 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "action of adding in writing;" c.1600, "attribution of authorship or origin," from Latin ascriptionem (nominative ascriptio) "an addition in writing," noun of action from past participle stem of ascribere (see ascribe).
Wiktionary
n. The act, or an instance, of ascribe a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work(,) or other thing to someone or something.
WordNet
n. 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]
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]
Wikipedia
Ascription is the act of ascribing (attributing).
In Sociology, it is a way to acquire status, along with achievement or chance - Cf. Ascriptive inequality.
In Philosophy, it is related to belief ascription.
It is as well a concept in Linguistics, refer to Predicate (grammar).
Usage examples of "ascription".
The very notion of power must be scrutinized lest in this ascription we be really making power identical with Essential Act, and even with Act not yet achieved.
With several voice, with ascription one, The woods and the marsh and the sea and my soul Unto thee, whence the glittering stream of all morrows doth roll, Cry good and past-good and most heavenly morrow, lord Sun.
In this earnest ascription of spirituality to the leaves Lanier recalls Ruskin.
Taking these as real, they try to remove the wrong ascriptions which make the absolute appear as a limited empirical thing.
And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.
James Martineau wrote The Century saying that Helen had taken that passage literally from Martineau, without ascription.
The additional ascription of judicial and police powers to the shaykh and his retinue left the tribesmen-cum-peasants as virtual serfs, continuously in debt and in servitude to the shaykh turned landlord and master.
Taking these as real, they try to remove the wrong ascriptions which make the absolute appear as a limited empirical thing.
An angelic ascription of praise to the Creator of the Universe and to Divine Love is the first vocal utterance and the last.
The Cure turned to the altar and raised the bag towards it in ascription and thanksgiving, then he turned to Parpon again, but the dwarf was trotting away down the aisle and from the church.