Meanings (ES + gloss)
adscribir • arrogar • atribuir • imputar
To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something.
Difficult running was ascribed by the driver to inferior coal, alleged to be Polish.
One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
adscribir • arrogar • atribuir
To attribute (a book, painting, or any other work of art or literature) to a writer or creator.
It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complet…