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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
credited
adj
  1. (usually followed by `to') given credit for; "an invention credited to Edison"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Credit \Cred"it\ (kr[ecr]d"[icr]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
      {Credited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crediting}.]
      1. To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put
            trust in; to believe.
  
                     How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin?
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise
            the estimation of.
  
                     You credit the church as much by your government as
                     you did the school formerly by your wit. --South.
  
      3. (Bookkeeping) To enter upon the credit side of an account;
            to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set
            to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest
            paid on a bond.
  
      {To credit with}, to give credit for; to assign as justly due
            to any one.
  
                     Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any
                     others to be credited with the clear enunciation of
                     this doctrine.                                    --Newman.
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