Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee.
- adjective Enrolled compulsorily; drafted.
- transitive verb To enroll compulsorily into service; draft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Registered; enrolled.
- noun One who is compulsorily enrolled for military or naval service.
- To enroll compulsorily for military or naval service; force into service; draft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Enrolled; written; registered.
- adjective (Rom. Antiq.) the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the “fathers” the body was called
Patres et Conscripti ; afterward all were calledPatres conscripti . - transitive verb To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
- noun One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who is
compulsorily enrolled , often into amilitary service; adraftee . - adjective
Drafted . - verb transitive To
enrol (l) compulsorily; todraft ; toinduct .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who is drafted into military service
- verb enroll into service compulsorily
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Posner contends, “Conscription could be described as a form of slavery, in the sense that a conscript is a person deprived of the ownership of his own labor.”
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The best tactic for a new conscript is to challenge the old soldiers the first time they attack.
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The best tactic for a new conscript is to challenge the old soldiers the first time they attack.
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In some countries, to be called a conscript or drafted man was considered a stigma, but not so in the South.
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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A law had been passed by the Confederate States Congress called the conscript act.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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The conscript might be a captain, a colonel, a general, before the Austrian or Prussian soldier could be a corporal.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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[11] The senators were called conscript fathers, (patres conscripti,) either from their being enrolled on the censor's list, or more probably from the addition made to their numbers after the expulsion of the kings, in order to supply the places of those who had been murdered by Tarquin.
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The new senators were at first called conscript, and in the process of time the name was extended to the entire body.
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Veteran troops had a low enough opinion of the "conscript" as a genus; but they failed not to evince, by means more prompt than courteous, their thorough contempt for the "substitute."
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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And Private Bunthrop, the despised "conscript," slung his bayoneted rifle over his wounded shoulder and commenced to scramble up out over the front of the broken parapet.
Action Front Boyd Cable 1910
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