Reattribute
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To change the attribution of; to give credit to someone else for a deed.
"A magnificent picture of a falcon, long attributed to the 14th-century Chinese animal painter Xu Ze, has recently been reattributed to the 16th-century Korean painter Yi Am, partly on the basis of a seal stamped on the picture's surface."
- 2 attribute to another source wordnet
Example
More examples"A magnificent picture of a falcon, long attributed to the 14th-century Chinese animal painter Xu Ze, has recently been reattributed to the 16th-century Korean painter Yi Am, partly on the basis of a seal stamped on the picture's surface."
Etymology
From re- + attribute.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.