Is It Ascribe or Prescribe?

As verbs the difference between ascribe and prescribe
is that ascribe is to attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something while prescribe is to order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.

How do you use ascribe?

Ascribe in a Sentence ?
  1. While you can sometimes ascribe these symptoms to allergies, I'm pretty sure you have a full-fledged cold.
  2. The doctors tried to ascribe the baby's condition to parental negligence, but tests showed that he had a rare virus.

What does it mean to ascribe something?

transitive verb. : to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing These poems are usually ascribed to Homer. They ascribe most of their success to good timing and good luck.

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