Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bound or attached to the soil: applied to villeins under the feudal system, who were annexed to the freehold and transferable with it.
  • Added, as to a list; enrolled.
  • Also rarely adscriptitious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Ascribed.
  • adjective obsolete Added; additional.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete ascribed
  • adjective obsolete additional

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin ascriptitius, from ascribere.

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