<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>ascribed</li><li>ascribing</li><li>to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians</li><li>to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic</li></ul>