Ascription

Definition: Ascription

Ascription

Noun

1. Assigning to a cause or source.

Date "ascription" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references)

Etymology: Ascription \As*crip"tion\, noun. [Latin expression ascriptio, from ascribere. See Ascribe.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Ascription

Synonym: attribution (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Attribution	Noun: attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale; accounting for; v; palaetiology, imputation, derivation from.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ascription

English words defined with "ascription": Anthropopathy ♦ Pseudepigraphy ♦ Tersanctus. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief (reference) Ascription and Achievement: Studies in Mobility and Status Attainment in Canada (reference) Ascription and Labor Markets: Race and Sex Differences in Earnings (reference) Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription (reference) Is The Quest For Meaning The Quest For God?The Religious Ascription of Meaning in Relation to the Secular Ascription of Meaning: A Theological Study (Currents of Encounter 11) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Ascription" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ascription" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	27	66,962

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "ascription": self-ascription.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "ascription"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		atribuim, veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, attire, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, togs, vesture, wear). (various references)

Arabic		‏نسب (assign, belong, derivation, descent, extraction, issue, kin, lineage, parentage, pedigree, propinquity, relation, relationship), ‏عزو (attribution, imputation). (various references)

Bulgarian		приписване (assignation, assignment, attribution, imputation, reference). (various references)

Czech		připsání. (various references)

Danish		vin med en geografisk betegnelse (wine with a geographical ascription). (various references)

Dutch		wijn met een geografische aanduiding (wine with a geographical ascription). (various references)

French		attribution (assignation, assignment). (various references)

German		zuweisen (allocate, allot, assign, detail), zuschreibung (appreciation in value, attribution), zurückführung (affiliation), beilegung (attaching, attribution, enclosure, insertion, reconciliation, settlement). (various references)

Greek		απόδοσισ. (various references)

Hebrew		שיוך (atribution). (various references)

Hungarian		tulajdonítás (attribution, imputation), hálaadás szentbeszéd végén. (various references)

Italian		attribuzione (assignment), ascrizione. (various references)

Manx		lhiassaghey (allege, amend, ascribe, charge, charge imputation, contrive, contriving, fabricate, fabrication, improve, make up, preserve), cur sheese da (impute, refer), cur gys lieh (ascribe, attribute, attribution, impute). (various references)

Pig Latin		ascriptionay

Portuguese		atribuição (allotment, attribution, placement), relato (account, description, mention, narration, narrative, relation, report, saying, story), imputação (accusation, attribution). (various references)

Russian		приписывание (attribution). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pripisivanje (attribution). (various references)

Spanish		atribución (assignation, attribution, awarding). (various references)

Swedish		tillskrivande, tillräknande. (various references)

Turkish		atıf, yükleme (charge, embarkation, imposition, lading, loading, predication, shipment), üstüne atma (imputation). (various references)

Ukrainian		приписування (attribution, prescription), приписуване. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự đổ tại, sự đổ cho sự gán cho. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ascription": ascriptions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ascription" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ascretion, escription, scription. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "ascription" (pronounced 'As*crip"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: opticians, psoriatic.
	-2 letters: aoristic, apricots, atropins, cantrips, captions, carotins, optician, pactions, parsonic, piscator.
	-3 letters: actions, airpost, apricot, aprotic, aroints, aspirin, atonics, atropin, cantors, cantrip, caption, captors, carotin, cartons, cations, catnips, cistron, citrins, citrons, contras, cortins, cratons, incisor, ironist, narcist, noritic, paction, parotic, partons, patrons, pianist, picaros, piratic, piscina, porcini, prosaic, psoatic, rapinis, rations.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: anisotropic, ascriptions.
	+2 letters: anticipators, antistrophic, conspiration, crepitations, importancies, imprecations, misanthropic, nonparasitic, pertinacious, predications, replications.
	+3 letters: anisometropic, appreciations, conspirations, containership, coplanarities, depreciations, endoparasitic, haruspication, inscriptional, pantisocratic, personalistic, petrifactions, pictorialness, pontificators, practitioners, protactiniums, provincialist, purifications, saprogenicity, transcription, triplications.
	+4 letters: actinomorphies, anticensorship, caprifications, conspirational, conspiratorial, containerships, contraposition, contrapositive, cooperationist, decrepitations, haruspications, incorporations, isentropically, micropulsation, nonpsychiatric, pantisocracies, pantisocratist, participations, pertinaciously, petrifications, picturizations, precipitations, prevarications, pronunciations, propagandistic, provincialists, reapplications, reciprocations, recompilations, reduplications, republications, spinthariscope, transcriptions, ultraprecision.
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