What is "conscripted"

Usage examples of "conscripted".

The rest reminded Jeff of the Red rebels he'd fought just after he got conscripted into the C.

My son got conscripted not long ago, and I don't want him getting shot at.

But something must be done to give those who are conscripted some relief!

Peter went on, "but we'd only just gotten past the necessary stuff when he got conscripted to the station.

She conscripted us Talents to be sure she finished on time, and finished on time she will be.

At the same moment, one of the conscripted roustabouts invisible "offstage" began playing on the accordion his Slovak notion of what David, King of the Israelites, would have played on his harp.

Beck somewhere found and purchased a snare drum and a tenor drum, and conscripted another Slovak into the band to play them, for they served better than Hannibal's big bass drum to sound a suspenseful roll during a thrill act or a brisk rataplan during clownish knockabouts.

Or, as a resident foreigner in wartime, you could have been conscripted as a mere ranker, or worse, into a labor battalion.

Even the workers currently re-building the city consist mainly of women, children, the dolts and dotards who were unfit to fight in the siege, brute peasants conscripted from the outlying lands.

Then they muffled their finished works separately in swathings of fiber mats, and the lord of the Chalca conscripted perhaps one thousand sturdy porters to haul the stones here to the capital.

They should command a good price in those lands from which we have captured or conscripted so many of the native workers.

Since I could foresee only war resulting from that outrage, and since I did not care to be conscripted to fight in it, I also departed hastily from Chololan, only I went to the east.

But that day there were not many white men in evidence—or their animals or their conscripted Totonaca laborers—for most of them, we learned, were working in a place some way farther north, where Cortés had decreed the construction of a more permanent Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, with solid houses of wood and stone and adobe.

Then, leading a train of Huaxteca porters, conscripted to carry their own tribute goods to Tenochtítlan, Cuaupopoca had moved on south into the Totonaca country, as he had been doing every year for years.

The attrition rate had been terrible on both sides, for Ancar had been perfectly willing to conscript anything and anyone and throw his conscripted troops into the front lines under magical coercions to fight.