Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ascribe

Ascribe ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Latin ascribere, adscribere, to ascribe; ad + scribere to write: compare Old French ascrire. See Scribe.]

1.
To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. — Addison
2.
To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
More than good-will to me attribute naught. — Spenser
Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit. — Pope
And fairly quit him of the imputed blame. — Spenser