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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conscript \Con"script\, a. [L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See Scribe.] Enrolled; written; registered.
Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the ``fathers'' the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti.
Conscript \Con"script\, n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
Conscript \Con*script"\, v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1800, perhaps a back-formation (influenced by French adjective conscrit) from conscription.
1813, American English, from conscript (n.). A word from the militia drafts in the War of 1812. Popularized (or unpopularized) during U.S. Civil War, when both sides resorted to it in 1862. Related: Conscripted; conscripting.
1530s, from Latin conscriptus, past participle of conscribere "to draw up, list," literally "to write together" (see conscription).
Wiktionary
1 draft. 2 Enrolled; written; registered. n. One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee. v
(context transitive English) To enrolenroll compulsorily; to draft; to induct.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Conscript or Conscription may refer to:
- Constructed script
- The Conscript, a 1974 Belgian film
- Conscription, the process of drafting a country's population into involuntary labour.
- The ConScript Unicode Registry for coordinating Unicode private-use area assignments.
- Conscript, basic infantry for the Soviet Union in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Conscript, basic infantry for the Soviet Union in Empires: Dawn of the Modern World
Usage examples of "conscript".
Surviving aliens were treated like motiles, and conscripted to help build the territory.
The whole conception of the militarized continental state, with its secret police, its censored literature and its conscript labour, is utterly different from that of the loose maritime democracy, with its slums and unemployment, its strikes and party politics.
Perhaps more significantly, the successful insurgent not only moves among, but is rooted in, and belongs to, the same population in which the enemy moves and from which it conscripts its counterinsurgent forces.
Somewhere out there were the Dons with their army of peasant conscripts and mercenaries and family retainers.
Conscript Fathers, is the oath which thousands upon thousands of Italians have sworn over the course of the past year.
Houses, conscripts from the barracks, malcontents out of the Moras district.
He had grown and been conscripted and sailed for Malaya, and then died violently at nineteen, with his paybook in his pocket.
The Conscript Father Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus has a little son and heir, giving rise to great expressions of joy on the part of various Domitii Ahenobarbi and Servilii Caepiones, though I note the Calpurnii Pisones have managed to maintain their air of indifference.
You have all these farm-boys and merchant sons, minor nobles and conscripts swept up off the streetsall of them burdened with parents and sibs, friends and lovers.
Soon, a line of waiters, cooks, clerks, bellboys, musicians, some conscripted guests, extended across the lobby and to the St.
Even conscripting in every district south of the Arnus, we stand no hope of recruiting the troops we need to field this year.
My task is to defend this city, yet the High Fist has been conscripting from my own soldiers, bleeding the companies.
One of the conscripts broke ranks to pull down his pants and squat beside the road.
France had been scraped for men, then scraped again, and many of the next class of conscripts had already fled into the woods or hills to escape the sergeants who came to take cannon-fodder still not grown to manhood.
The French infantry, mostly young conscripts who had no stomach for a fight, broke and fled.