Acquired vs Ascribed - What's the difference?
acquired | ascribed |
(acquire)
(medicine) Developed postfetally; not congenital.
(ascribe)
To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
As verbs the difference between acquired and ascribed
is that acquired is past tense of acquire while ascribed is past tense of ascribe.As an adjective acquired
is developed postfetally; not congenital.acquired
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(head)Adjective
(-)ascribed
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(head)Anagrams
*ascribe
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(ascrib)- One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
- It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
