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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.

Definition 2024


adscriptive

adscriptive

English

Adjective

adscriptive (not comparable)

  1. 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.