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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Attribute \At*trib"ute\ ([a^]t"tr[i^]*b[=u]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
     p. {Attributed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Attributing}.] [L.
     attributus, p. p. of attribuere; ad + tribuere to bestow. See
     {Tribute}.]
     To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate
     (to); to 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.
  
     Syn: See {Ascribe}.

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