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Ascriptive —William Charleton, 1650 Last used perhaps by a homeopath who tried curing wounds with magnets, ascriptive is almost invisible in the OED and banned from Chambers Dictionary. A word my computers always erase gave way to ascribed in the 17th century until an essay in yesterday’s Times caught me into […]