conscribe

[ kuhn-skrahyb ]
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verb (used with object),con·scribed, con·scrib·ing.
  1. to constrict or limit; circumscribe.

  2. to force into military service; conscript.

Origin of conscribe

1
1540–50; <Latin conscrībere to enroll, enlist, equivalent to con-con- + scrībere to write

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