What is "adscript"

Adscript \Ad"script\, a. [L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe.] Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

Adscript \Ad"script\, n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
--Bancroft.

a. Held to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs. n. 1 A feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it. 2 (context typography English) Something written or printed immediately after another character and aligned with it.

1. adj. written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it [ant: superscript, subscript]

2. (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner; "an adscript serf" [syn: adscripted]

Adscript (from Latin ad, on or to, and scribere, to write) means something written after, as opposed to subscript which means written under.

A laborer was called an "adscript of the soil" (adscriptus glebae) when he could be sold or transferred with it, as in feudal days, and as in Russia until 1861.