conscribe
Americanverb (used with object)
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to constrict or limit; circumscribe.
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to force into military service; conscript.
Etymology
Origin of conscribe
1540–50; < Latin conscrībere to enroll, enlist, equivalent to con- con- + scrībere to write
Example Sentences
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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.
From Slate
Hoc quoque tu conscribe tuis, Auguste, triumphis.
From Project Gutenberg
Conscribe, kon-′skrīb′, v.t. to enlist by conscription.—adj.
From Project Gutenberg
“If you conscribe them, they will evade the law by all possible means, and you will turn honest men into law-breakers.”
From Project Gutenberg
August 15th.—I learn an order has been issued to conscribe all commissary and quartermasters’ clerks liable to military service.
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