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to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed byto ).

to consider as a quality or characteristic of the person, thing, group, etc., indicated.

to consider as made by the one indicated, especially with strong evidence but in the absence of conclusive proof.

to regard as produced by or originating in the time, period, place, etc., indicated; credit; assign.

something attributed as belonging to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property.

something used as a symbol of a particular person, office, or status.

Grammar.��a word or phrase that is syntactically subordinate to another and serves to limit, identify, particularize, describe, or supplement the meaning of the form with which it is in construction. In the red house, red is an attribute of house.

Fine Arts.��an object associated with or symbolic of a character, office, or quality, as the keys of St. Peter or the lion skin of Hercules.

Philosophy.��(in the philosophy of Spinoza) any of the essential qualifications of God, thought and extension being the only ones known.

Logic.��(in a proposition) that which is affirmed or denied concerning the subject.

Obsolete.��distinguished character; reputation.