2. Verb. (third-person singular of attribute) ¹
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Definition of Attributes
1. attribute [v] - See also: attribute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attributes
Literary usage of Attributes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"DIVISION OF attributes.—Taking as the basis of classification the ways by which
the attributes are developed, they are divided into positive and negative. ..."
2. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"to their definition of the words, bolh those attributes are but one ; they maintain
that some of the attributes are proclaimed by the evidence of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"On the Association of attributes in Statistics, with Examples from the Material
of the ... The paper deals with the theory of association of attributes, ie, ..."
4. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Taoism by Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu, James Legge (1891)
"(Those who) possessed in highest degree the attributes (of the Tao) did not ...
(Those who) possessed in the highest degree those attributes did nothing ..."
5. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1897)
"THE PERCEPTION OF BODY AS PRESENTING STATICAL attributes. § 326. From that class
of attributes known to us solely through one or other kind of objective ..."
6. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1905)
"Such a principle will help us on this occasion to decide, among the various
attributes set down in the scholastic inventory of God's perfections, ..."
7. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"attributes expressed figuratively. 539. When two attributes are connected, the
name of the ona may be employed figuratively to express the other. 1. ..."
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