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Grammar : Adj
Spell : uh-skrahyb
Phonetic Transcription : əˈskraɪb


Définition of ascribable

Origin :
  • 1670s, from ascribe + -able. Related: Ascribably; ascribability.
  • As in traceable : adj capable of being traced
Example sentences :
  • Are these miraculous revelations that we hear of ascribable to evil influences?
  • Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
  • Perhaps to some extent this is ascribable to the influence of the genius loci.
  • Extract from : « A Civil Servant in Burma » by Herbert Thirkel White
  • Who could say whether his silence were ascribable to the absence of danger, or to his own absence?
  • Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • They are not ascribable to the purely intellectual movement alone, though it is no doubt an essential factor.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen
  • The third portion, or epilogue, appears to be ascribable chiefly to the genial love of Homer for the horse.
  • Extract from : « Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 » by W. E. Gladstone
  • Here we come upon the border of those changes which are ascribable to use and disuse.
  • Extract from : « Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I » by Herbert Spencer
  • For these reasons the amount of illness traceable to raw milk far exceeds that ascribable to any other food.
  • Extract from : « Food Poisoning » by Edwin Oakes Jordan
  • That they were effective in action was ascribable to a great extent to the admirable acting of Miss Terry.
  • Extract from : « Ellen Terry and Her Sisters » by T. Edgar Pemberton
  • It is every day disputed whether in war success is ascribable to conduct or to fortune.
  • Extract from : « A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
  • Of the increased deaths, 700,000 were ascribable to insufficient nourishment, mainly in the last two years of war.
  • Extract from : « The New Germany » by George Young

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