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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ascription
    n 1: assigning some quality or character to a person or thing;
         "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to
         me of honors I had not earned" [syn: attribution,
         ascription]
    2: assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting
       to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the
       attribution of the painting to Picasso" [syn: attribution,
       ascription]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ascription \As*crip"tion\, n. [L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See
   Ascribe.]
   The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also,
   that which is ascribed.
   [1913 Webster]

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