ascription

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: as=crip=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

ascription, n. [L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See Ascribe.].

 The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ascription, n.
1 the act or an instance of ascribing.
2 a preacher's words ascribing praise to God at the end of a sermon.

Etymology

L ascriptio -onis (as ASCRIBE)

ROGET THESAURUS

ascription

Attribution

N attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale, accounting for, palaetiology, imputation, derivation from, filiation, affiliation, pedigree, explanation, reason why, attributed, attributable, referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from, owing to, putative, ecbatic, hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to, on that account, from this cause, from that cause, thanks to, forasmuch as, whence, propter hoc, why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen? in some way, in some such way, somehow, somehow or other, that is why, hinc illae lachrymae.