1
[ verb ] attribute to a source or cause

Examples

"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"

2
[ verb ] look on as or consider

Examples

: "she looked on this affair as a joke" "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

They have insisted , rather , on living fully and completely within modern culture and , so far from considering this treason to God , have looked_upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him .

(Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)

The return of the Catholic hierarchy in 1850 was looked_upon with indignant disapprobation and , in_fact , was charged with being a gesture of disloyalty .

(Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)

They were increasingly looked_upon as a means of establishing the new rural communes as the focus of a new , constructive national effort .

Related terms

think

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