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conscribe, v.|kənˈskraɪb|
[ad. L. conscrībĕre to enter in a list, enroll, draw up, prescribe, f. con- together + scrībĕre to write; in sense 4 corresponding to conscription 4.]
†1. trans. To enroll, levy (an army); to enlist (a soldier). Obs.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 281 When this armie..was conscribed and come together to Harflete. Ibid. 314 To conscribe and set furthe a new armie. 1660G. Fleming Stemma Sacrum 28 People..of the meanest condition, and mercinary only and conscribed by others.
†2. To enroll as a Roman senator. Obs. rare.
1656J. Harrington Oceana (1700) 136 If a Plebeian happen'd to be conscrib'd he and his Posterity became Patricians.
†3. To circumscribe, to limit. Obs.
1613Heywood Silver Age v. Wks. 1874 III. 162 The Fates, by whom your powers are all conscribed, Pronounce this doom. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 105 A Mart, Fair or Market..although they be conscribed to place and circuit. 1704Harris Lex. Techn., Conscribed, the same with Circumscribed.
4. To enlist for the army by conscription, q.v.; to enlist compulsorily. Also transf.
1820Edin. Rev. XXXIV. 418 Government..cannot conscribe readers. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cviii. 24 ‘We will not be conscribed, to be shot like dogs’—was what I heard from French youth. 1887Spectator 18 June 818/2 Ghilzaies forcibly conscribed by the Ameer.
Hence conˈscribed ppl. a.
1654R. Codrington tr. Hist. Ivstine 89 With this conscribed Army composed of the outcasts of man. |