Attribute

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Reputation.

II. Attribute ·noun Quality, ·etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

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

IV. Attribute ·noun That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

V. Attribute ·vt To Ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to Impute; to Assign; to consider as belonging (to).