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Webster 1913 Edition
Adscriptive
Ad-scrip′tive
,Adj.
[L.
adscriptivus
. See Adscript
.] Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Brougham.
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adscriptive
adscriptive
English
Adjective
adscriptive (not comparable)
- Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
- Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
- Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories; these peasants called adscriptive (pripisneeye) working at the manufactories on certain fixed terms.
- Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy