attribution

Roget category 155

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.1. Constancy of sequence in events

#155. [Assignment of cause] Attribution

noun

attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale — accounting for etc. v. — palaetiology1, imputation, derivation from.
filiation^†, affiliation — pedigree etc. (paternity) 166.
explanation etc. (interpretation) 522 — reason why etc. (cause) 153.

verb

attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to — put down to, set down to, blame — charge on, ground on — invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon — account for, derive from, point out the reason etc. 153 — theorize — tell how it comes — put the saddle on the right horse.

adjective

attributed etc. v. — attributable etc. v. — referable to, referrible to^†, due to, derivable from — owing to etc. (effect) 154 — putative — ecbatic^†.

adverb

hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to — on that account — from this cause, from that cause — thanks to, forasmuch as — whence, propter hoc [Lat.].
why,? wherefore,? whence,? how comes it, how is it, how happens it,? how does it happen,? in some way, in some such way — somehow, somehow or other.

phrase

that is why — hinc illae lachrymae [Lat.] [Horace].

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