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conscribe

[ kuhn-skrahyb ]

verb (used with object)

conscribed, conscribing.
  1. to constrict or limit; circumscribe.
  2. to force into military service; conscript.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of conscribe1

1540–50; < Latin DzԲī to enroll, enlist, equivalent to con- con- + ī to write
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Hess: As a writer, one of my questions about the proliferation of websites for women is whether they conscribe female writers to women-branded spaces, or whether they can actually extend more opportunities for those writers at legacy publications or more mainstream platforms.

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Hoc quoque tu conscribe tuis, Auguste, triumphis.

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Conscribe, kon-′skrīb′, v.t. to enlist by conscription.—adj.

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“If you conscribe them, they will evade the law by all possible means, and you will turn honest men into law-breakers.”

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August 15th.—I learn an order has been issued to conscribe all commissary and quartermasters’ clerks liable to military service.

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