ascriptive

adj

Definitions

  1. ascribing

    ascribing; relating to ascription

  2. The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work…

    The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work or other object to someone or something.

    • Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.
    • Ascriptives need not be novel. Tension is a conventional ascriptive that, despite its ubiquitous use, has never achieved technical status in musical discourse.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA