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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Attribute \At*trib"ute\ ([a^]t"tr[i^]*b[=u]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. {Attributed}; p. pr & vb n. {Attributing}.] [L.
attributus p. p. of attribuere ad + tribuere to bestow. See
{Tribute}.]
To ascribe; to consider something as due or appropriate
(to); to refer, as an effect to a cause to impute; to
assign; to consider as belonging (to).
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or
contradiction in it --Abp.
Tillotson
The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true
and exact performer. --Shak.
Syn: See {Ascribe}.
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