Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Written after, as distinguished from
subscript , or written under: as, in Greek grammar, an iota (ι ) adscript. - Attached to the soil, as a slave or feudal serf. See
adscriptus glebæ . - noun A serf attached to an estate and transferable with it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
- noun One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
feudal serf orlabourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it. - noun typography Something written or printed immediately after another character and aligned with it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it
- adjective (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner
Etymologies
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Examples
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You've got to write the adscript in solid English -- especially when you're talking about deception and tearing quotes out of context.
"What's happened to John McCain? He's running the sleaziest ads ever. Truly vile." Ann Althouse 2008
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The soul of man has never yet in any land been willingly adscript to the glebe.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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The soul of man has never yet in any land been willingly adscript to the glebe.
A Modern Utopia 1906
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Villeins, semi-entitled to half a bearskin of winter nights, seven yards from the fire, and adscript serfs, holding the reversion of a scraped marrow-bone under heriot (Aren't those beautiful words, Best Beloved?).
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The writing is in elegant continuous uncials (capitals), in three columns, without initial letters or iota subscript or adscript.
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Returning from this excursion, and determining that Antinous was a hero or divinised mortal, adscript to the college of the greater gods, and invested with many of their attributes, we may next ask the question, why this artificial cult, due in the first place to imperial passion and caprice, and nourished by the adulation of fawning provinces, was preserved from the rapid dissolution to which the flimsy products of court-flattery are subject.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Returning from this excursion, and determining that Antinous was a hero or divinised mortal, adscript to the college of the greater gods, and invested with many of their attributes, we may next ask the question, why this artificial cult, due in the first place to imperial passion and caprice, and nourished by the adulation of fawning provinces, was preserved from the rapid dissolution to which the flimsy products of court-flattery are subject.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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While speaking of Antinous as a divinised man, adscript to the gods of Egypt, accepted as hero and as god in Hellas, Italy, and Asia
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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While speaking of Antinous as a divinised man, adscript to the gods of Egypt, accepted as hero and as god in Hellas, Italy, and Asia
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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The divinised emperors were [Greek: paredroi] or [Greek: synthronoi]; nor did Virgil hesitate to flatter Augustus by questioning into which college of the immortals he would be adscript after death --
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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