Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enroll; enlist; levy as by a conscription.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To enroll; to enlist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
enroll ; toenlist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Have your fun now because you are outnumbered by the left of center majority who doesnt conscribe to your ignorance and rantings. paul
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Her commerce would be increased to an incalculable extent, and she would have naval populations from which to conscribe the crews for fleets that she would be prompt to build.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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A bill to conscribe negroes in the army was postponed indefinitely in the Senate yesterday, in secret session.
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If we admit the constitutionality of conscription which authorizes Congress to conscribe our citizens to raise armies, that provision of the constitution must be construed with, and limited by, the reservation in the same instrument of the right of the State to keep troops in time of war.
Journal of the Senate of the Extra Session of the General Assembly, of the State of Georgia, Convened by Proclamation of the Governor, at Macon, February 15th, 1865 Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1865
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The greatest objection comes from our people near the lines of the enemy, who allege that the attempt to conscribe them will drive them to the enemy.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, Called Session at Columbus, February and March, 1865. Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1865
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The Supreme Court of this State having held that the Confederate Government has no constitutional power to conscribe the officers of the State, I trust it may not be attempted.
Journal of the Senate at an Extra Session of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Convened Under the Proclamation of the Governor, March 10th, 1864. Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1864
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If the government has a right to conscribe at all, it has a right to conscribe persons of all classes, till it has raised enough to supply its armies.
Journal of the Senate at an Extra Session of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Convened Under the Proclamation of the Governor, March 10th, 1864. Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1864
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But it has no right to go farther and conscribe all, who are by its own consent to remain at home, to make supplies.
Journal of the Senate at an Extra Session of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Convened Under the Proclamation of the Governor, March 10th, 1864. Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1864
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With regard to the number of men liable to conscription, who have been removed from this department, this information can best be obtained from the bureau of conscription, the officers of which were authorized by the Adjutant General's orders to conscribe all who were efficient for field service.
[Communication from the Secretary of War, Jan. 23, 1864], Confederate States of America. War Dept 1864
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It has been the invariable rule of this office, when such disabily was not shown, to order the employee, if a soldier, to the field, and if a conscript, to direct the Bureau of Conscription to conscribe and assign him to a company in the army.
[Communication from the Secretary of War, Jan. 23, 1864], Confederate States of America. War Dept 1864
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