Synonyms for ascribable

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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