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o 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.

A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. Dunglison.

A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstracti…

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

omething, or (something) as belonging to some one. To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.

The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.

Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence.

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

e we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attribute. Abp. W. Thomson.

Relating or attributed to the Anabaptists, or their doctrines. Milton. Bp. Bull.

A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.

To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

epresentation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson.

To attribute a human form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.