ascribe

/ə-ˈskrīb/

Middle English, from Latin ascribere, from ad- + scribere to write

verb

  1. to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing

These poems are usually ascribed to Homer.

ascribe attribute assign impute credit mean to lay something to the account of a person or thing. ascribe suggests an inferring or conjecturing of cause, quality, authorship. attribute suggests less tentativeness than ascribe, less definiteness than assign.

idiom

  1. to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with (something or someone) : assign, credit, or blame

They ascribed his illness to chemicals in his brain.