To attribute, assign, or impute (something to someone); to accuse or charge (archaic).
From Old English and Middle English 'aretten,' possibly related to Old Norse 'reita.' This verb was used primarily from the 12th-16th centuries before falling out of use.
In Chaucer's works, 'aret' meant to accuse or blame—it's one of those wonderfully specific medieval verbs we lost when English simplified its vocabulary!
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