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adscript, a. and n.|ˈædskrɪpt|
[ad. L. adscrīpt-us pa. pple. of adscrīb-ĕre (more commonly ascrībĕre, ascrīptus); see prec.]
A. adj.
1. Written after, as distinguished from subscript.
1875Lightfoot Col. & Philem. (1876) 251 The iota adscript was still written.
2. For med.L. adscriptus (glebæ) attached (to the soil). Said of feudal serfs, who were transferred along with the estate to which they hereditarily pertained.
1822Edin. Rev. XXXII. 291 Consider the men as being in some measure adscript to the glebe.
B. n.
†1. Math. A natural tangent, so called because applied to the circumference of a circle. Obs.
1722G. Mackenzie Scot. Writers III. 520 To these Tables of Sines, Bressius added the Table of Natural Tangents, which he call'd Adscripts. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Adscripts, sometimes used for the tangents of arcs.
2. = A. 2 used subst.
1849Carlyle Nigger Quest. 44 The Blacks in Java are already a kind of Adscripts. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xvii. 496 Not only destitute of political franchises, but mere adscripts to the soil.
3. A comment or note added to a manuscript; esp. one which in error becomes incorporated in the text.
1889W. G. Rutherford Thucyd. IV p. xxxiv, In place of this word [scholium]..I would suggest another..if we anglicise the Latin adscriptum on the analogy of postscript and rescript we get exactly what we want. Ibid. p. xl, Adscripts combined with glosses may modify the whole structure of a sentence. 1898F. Blass Philol. of Gospels 161 The record of its original place must have been preserved..by some adscript..Here comes in the passage on the adulteress. 1929E. Lobel in Classical Q. XXIII. 78 A very large number of marginal or interlinear adscripts have made their way into the text of Ac. |