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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Inhere :: Inhere (v. i.) To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities..
Entitle :: Entitle (v. t.) To attribute; to ascribe.
Judge :: "Judge (v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about..
Trident :: Trident (n.) A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune..
Attributive :: Attributive (n.) A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.
Atrabiliary :: Atrabiliary (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania..
Multiplication :: Multiplication (n.) The art of increasing gold or silver by magic, -- attributed formerly to the alchemists..
Anthropomorphite :: Anthropomorphite (n.) One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that God has a human form, etc. Tillotson..
Lamentation :: Lamentation (n.) A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents..
Attributive :: Attributive (a.) Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute..
Acquisitiveness :: Acquisitiveness (n.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.
Deity :: Deity (n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works..
Eureka :: Eureka () The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out Eureka! eureka! (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery..
Subject :: Subject (a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum..
Idea :: Idea (n.) A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract..
Quietism :: Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes..
Charism :: Charism (n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians..
Aeon :: Aeon (n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Odyssey :: Odyssey (n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy..
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..
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