WordWeb Online

1. Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing
   "the ascription to me of honours I had not earned";
   - attribution
    
2. Assigning to a cause or source
   "the ascription of lighting to an expression of God's wrath";
   - attribution

Derived forms: ascriptions

See also: attributable, unascribable, unattributable

Type of: categorisation [Brit], categorization, classification, sorting

Encyclopedia: Ascription