Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ascription \As*crip"tion\, n. [L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See
   {Ascribe}.]
   The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also,
   that which is ascribed.

Source : WordNet®

ascription
     n 1: assigning some quality or character to a person or thing;
          "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription
          to me of honors I had not earned" [syn: {attribution}]
     2: assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting
        to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the
        attribution of the painting to Picasso" [syn: {attribution}]