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▪ I. conscript, a. and n.|ˈkɒnskrɪpt|
[ad. L. conscrīpt-us, pa. pple. of conscrībĕre: see prec.]
A. adj.
1. Enrolled or elected a senator. In pl. conscript fathers, † fathers conscript [L. patres conscripti, properly patres, conscripti, i.e. patres et conscripti fathers and elect]: a collective title by which the Roman senators were addressed; used also as a title by the Venetian senate.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. xi. (R.), He sayed these wordes, O fathers conscripte, O happie people. 1605B. Jonson Sejanus iii. i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 150/1 Fathers conscript, may this our present meeting Turn fair and fortunate to the common-wealth. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 27/1 At first..they were called Fathers only; but afterwards, when more were enroled in their body, Conscript Fathers. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. v. i. 306 Say, conscript fathers, shall she be admitted? [See Note.]
b. Applied allusively to senators, legislators, or the administrative council of a nation, municipality, etc.; rarely in sing.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 12 The conscript Fathers of the Colony disagree in many Points..yet they all agree in oppressing Strangers. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 341 Eliot, Hampden, Pym, nay Ludlow, Hutchinson, Vane..political Conscript Fathers. 1880Disraeli Endym. xxx, Hainault House had been raised by a British peer..the locality was no longer sufficiently refined for a conscript father.
†2. Inscribed in common or identically. rare—1.
1679Harby Key Script ii. 44 That 144000 in chap. 7. sealed, were not this 144000 in chap. 14. conscript, or having the Name of God written in their Fore-heads.
3. Enrolled or formed by conscription, as a soldier, or an army.
1823Southey Hist. Penins. War I. 499 Three conscript lads..of the sixty-sixth regiment. 1881Times Apr. 11/4 An enlisting army must always be more difficult to keep up than a conscript army. 1882Gd. Words 318 With the assistance of conscript negroes brought down the Nile.
B. n. [F. conscrit.] A military recruit obtained by conscription; one compulsorily enlisted for military or naval service.
1800Ann. Reg. 23 The general levy of 200,000 Conscripts [in 1799]. 1814Wellington in Gurw. Disp. XI. 589 The conscripts desert in all directions. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. ix. 323 Were these captives dealt with as conscripts or galley-slaves?
▪ II. conscript, v. orig. U.S.|kənˈskrɪpt|
[f. conscript a. or ppl. stem of L. conscrībĕre.]
trans. To compel to military service by conscription; to enlist compulsorily; = conscribe 4. Hence conˈscripted ppl. a.
1813Connecticut Courant 23 Nov. 3/5 State troops..had been conscripted under the orders of the former Captain General. 1814Columbian Centinel 21 Dec. 2/5 The bill for drafting, or Conscripting, the Militia, has passed both Houses of Congress. 1865W. Whitman Specimen Days (1888) 62 He was first conscripted for two years. 1880Atlantic Monthly July 22, I had been conscripted and forced into the army. 1887Spectator 18 June 824/2 The conscripted soldiers are always ready for a mutiny. 1889Pall Mall G. 23 Apr. 2/3 If we must conscript and train our youth..in great camps. 1899Daily News 8 Mar. 7/1 Under the name of a ‘Railway Brigade’ a corvée pure and simple has been conscripted by the Sirdar during the Soudan campaign... So-called soldiers are daily conscripted..simply for the construction of the Khartoum Railway. 1932E. Waugh Black Mischief iv. 137 It was necessary for the Emperor to leave his car and complete the journey on mule back, his luggage bobbing behind him on the heads of a dozen suddenly conscripted spectators. 1941L. B. Lyon Tomorrow is Revealing 47 The sea-shore pebble, the conscripted sand is covered By the stealing washing-over-us-water. |