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单词 conscribe
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conscribev.

Brit. /kənˈskrʌɪb/, U.S. /kənˈskraɪb/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin conscrībere.
Etymology: < classical Latin conscrībere to enrol, enlist, to form (an army) by enrolment, to write down, to compose, draw up, write < con- con- prefix + scrībere to write (see script n.1).In sense 2c after conscription n. 5b.
1. transitive. To write, set down in writing. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)]
awriteeOE
writeOE
speak?c1225
paintc1400
conscribec1487
blecka1500
cipher1565
letter1570
characterize1581
character1589
bewrite1660
scriven1680
quill1768
screeve1851
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica Proh. 11 Of whos olde annuary gestes in Latyn conscribyd we had notice & knowleche who were theyr prynces & what were theyr actes.
1654 tr. G. Fedro von Rodach Physicall & Chymicall Wks. To Rdr. sig. A4 These here and there scattered members..being set down by peeces, and conscribed in a promiscuous stile, (some in Latine, the most in the German tongue).
2.
a. transitive. To form (an army) by enrolment; to enlist (a soldier). Now archaic and rare.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)]
wagec1330
musterc1425
to take upc1425
prest1481
to call up1523
conscribe1548
enrol1576
matriculate1577
press1600
in list1604
list1643
recruita1661
enlist1699
crimp1789
to muster into service1834
book1843
induct1934
to read in1938
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccviiv When this armie..was conscribed and come together to Harflete.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxv To conscribe and set furthe a newe armie.
1660 G. Fleming Stemma Sacrvm 28 People..of the meanest condition, and mercinary only and conscribed by others.
1794 E. Stiles Hist. Three Judges King Charles I v. 242 Ten thousand of these are worth three times the number raised in the usual manner of conscribing venal armies.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. IV. xvi. 185 Long yellow-haired, tall and great limbed, as Almains. He would, of such, he might conscribe a legion!
b. transitive. To enrol as a Roman senator. Cf. conscript adj. 1a. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > appoint as Roman senator
conscribe1656
adlect1914
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 148 If a plebeian happened to be conscribed, he and his posterity became patrician.
c. transitive. To recruit by conscription; = conscript v. Also in extended use. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > enlist (soldiers) [verb (transitive)] > compel to enlist
prest1481
press1542
impress1598
imprest1645
lot1757
conscribe1806
conscript1813
draft1862
press-gang1899
to comb out1916
1806 Universal Mag. Oct. 366/1 They who are conscribed also in this manner, whether rich or poor, are not in the state of soldiery in the rest of Europe: the way is open to them to the highest commands.
1820 Edinb. Rev. 34 418 Government..cannot conscribe readers.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cviii. 24 ‘We will not be conscribed, to be shot like dogs’—was what I heard from French youth.
1919 S. McKenna Sonia Married (new ed.) ii. 92 Volunteers were encouraged to enlist on pain of being conscribed, if they held back.
1978 New Scientist 5 Oct. 88/1 He was conscribed into the Leicestershire Yeomanry during the war.
3.
a. transitive. To restrict or confine within limits; to circumscribe. (Now the usual sense.)Apparently not recorded between the 17th and 19th centuries.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)]
thringc1250
circumscrivec1374
arta1382
bound1393
limita1398
restrainc1405
pincha1450
restringe1525
coarcta1529
circumscribe1529
restrict1535
conclude1548
narrow?1548
limitate1563
stint1567
chamber1568
contract1570
crampern1577
contain1578
finish1587
conscribe1588
pound1589
confine1597
border1608
circumcise1613
constrain1614
coarctate1624
butta1631
prescribe1688
pin1738
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > enclose as a boundary
circumscribe1578
conscribe1588
inbound1600
1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 10 The life of a woman is conscribd and ordinarily concluded in lesser tyme then Mans.
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age iii. sig. K4 The Fates, by whom your powers are all conscrib'd, Pronounce this doome.
a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 106 A Mart, Fair or Market..although they be conscribed to place and circuit.
1874 A. Mursell in Catholic Serm. II. 29 We have duties to perform. There are some whose duty is conscribed within the home-circle.
1916 A. D. McLaren Germanism from Within iv. xix. 241 It is still a rare thing for a man or woman to marry out of his or her class. Even religion is still conscribed.
1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Aug. 986/3 Any book that he did write would be conscribed by the limitations of his vision.
1996 W. Hoffmann-Riem Regulating Media iv. 165 Efforts are made to conscribe the dynamic of the economic market with the use of rules to restrict concentration.
2003 Renaissance Drama 32 200 Margaret Cavendish's rights were thus singularly conscribed.
b. transitive. Geometry. = circumscribe v. 3. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > manipulate shapes or figures [verb (transitive)] > draw or form boundary of
descrivec1392
describe1559
circumscribe1570
contain1570
inscribe1570
conscribe1704
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Polygon This Triangle will be lesser than any Polygon conscribed, and greater than any inscribed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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