Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.