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Conscript \Con"script\, n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Conscript \Con*script"\, v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Conscript \Con"script\, a. [L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See Scribe.]

Enrolled; written; registered.

Conscript fathers (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 called Patres conscripti.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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