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To: aposiopetic
ascribe
Verb
[-cribing, -cribed]
1. to attribute, as to a particular origin: headaches which may be ascribed to stress
2. to consider that (a particular quality) is possessed by something or someone: specific human qualities are ascribed to each of the four elements [Latin ad in addition + scribere to write]
ascription n
USAGE: Ascribe is sometimes used where subscribe is meant: I do not subscribe (not ascribe) to this view.

9 posted on 02/22/2009 7:35:41 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Google "Illinois' history of insatiable greed" for insight into what is coming our way.)
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I predict prophecy that the #1 definition will be the one that most folks who follow these threads will say "AMEN!" to!
104 posted on 02/22/2009 1:05:56 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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