CREDITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does credited mean? 

• CREDITED (adjective)
  The adjective CREDITED has 1 sense:

1. (usually followed by 'to') given credit for

  Familiarity information: CREDITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'to') given credit for

Context example:

an invention credited to Edison

Similar:

attributable (capable of being attributed)

 Context examples 

He quite ignored my presence, though I credited him with being simply unable to see me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Besides, the strange nature of the animal would elude all pursuit, even if I were so far credited as to persuade my relatives to commence it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It also credited Leonov with making the spacewalk possible, noting on Twitter "his venture into the vacuum of space began the history of extravehicular activity".

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

The old man had just finished his lunch, and certainly his empty dish bore evidence to the good appetite with which his housekeeper had credited him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last, the same gentleman who had been my interpreter, said, “he was desired by the rest to set me right in a few mistakes, which I had fallen into through the common imbecility of human nature, and upon that allowance was less answerable for them. That this breed of struldbrugs was peculiar to their country, for there were no such people either in Balnibarbi or Japan, where he had the honour to be ambassador from his majesty, and found the natives in both those kingdoms very hard to believe that the fact was possible: and it appeared from my astonishment when he first mentioned the matter to me, that I received it as a thing wholly new, and scarcely to be credited. That in the two kingdoms above mentioned, where, during his residence, he had conversed very much, he observed long life to be the universal desire and wish of mankind. That whoever had one foot in the grave was sure to hold back the other as strongly as he could. That the oldest had still hopes of living one day longer, and looked on death as the greatest evil, from which nature always prompted him to retreat. Only in this island of Luggnagg the appetite for living was not so eager, from the continual example of the struldbrugs before their eyes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)