Definition of attribute

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Attribute (n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules..

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Difference :: Difference (n.) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
Accident :: Accident (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness..
Ascribe :: Ascribe (v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong..
Of :: Of (prep.) Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven..
Quantity :: Quantity (n.) The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question How much?; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size..
Blasphemy :: Blasphemy (n.) An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity..
Talaria :: Talaria (n. pl.) Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury..
Damask :: Damask (v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or water, as metal. See Damaskeen..
Difference :: Difference (n.) That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.
Determinant :: Determinant (n.) A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise..
Multiplication :: Multiplication (n.) The art of increasing gold or silver by magic, -- attributed formerly to the alchemists..
Concrete :: Concrete (a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract..
Acquisitiveness :: Acquisitiveness (n.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
Quality :: Quality (n.) That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman..
Adjective :: Adjective (n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, a wise ruler, wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler..
Comprehension :: Comprehension (n.) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
Clairvoyance :: Clairvoyance (n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition..
Condition :: Condition (n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
Reproach :: Reproach (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
Anthropomorphize :: Anthropomorphize (v. t. & i.) To attribute a human form or personality to.
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