Implicate and Attribute

verb

• Bring into intimate and incriminating connection.
  • usage: "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"
• Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result.
  • usage: "What does this move entail"
  • synonyms: entail

• (v.t.) To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
• (v.t.) To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.

noun

• A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
  • usage: "self-confidence is not an endearing property"
  • synonyms: property, dimension
• An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity.

verb

• Attribute or credit to.
  • usage: "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
  • synonyms: impute, ascribe, assign
• Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.
  • usage: "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
  • synonyms: assign

• (v.t.) 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).
• (n.) A conventional symbol of office, character or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) Reputation.
• (n.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.