a. [ L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe. ] Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. adscriptivus. See Adscript. ] Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. See Adscript. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. ascriptio, fr. ascribere. See Ascribe. ] The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. ascriptitius, fr. ascribere. ]
An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. circumscriptio. See Circumscribe. ]
The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into circumscription and confine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a limited manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a literal, limited, or narrow manner. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To enroll, by compulsion, for military service. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See Scribe. ] Enrolled; written; registered. [ 1913 Webster ]
Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.),
n. One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. conscriptio: cf. F. conscription. ]
The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krüppel, Dan. kröbling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. creópan to creep. See Creep. ] One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. [ 1913 Webster ]
I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Local. U. S. ]
The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go. Pennsylvania Law Reports.
a. Lame; halting. [ R. ] “The cripple, tardy-gaited night.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. “The crippled crone.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Lameness. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [ R. ] Mrs. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. description, L. descriptio. See Describe. ]
Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]
A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay.
a. [ L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif. ] Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description;
Descriptive anatomy,
Descriptive geometry,
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n. [ OF. ] A writing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. exscriptus, p. p. of exscribere. ] A copy; a transcript. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. ex-+scriptural. ] Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. imprescriptibilité. ] The quality of being imprescriptible. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. im- not + prescriptible: cf. F. imprescriptible. ]
The right of navigation, fishing, and others that may be exercised on the sea, belonging to the right of mere ability, are imprescriptible. Vattel (Trans. ) [ 1913 Webster ]
The imprescriptible laws of the pure reason. Colerridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an imprescriptible manner; obviously. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. in- not + circumscriptible: cf. LL. incircumscriptibilis. ] Incapable of being circumscribed or limited. Cranmer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or limitless. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not descriptive. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being inscribed; inscribable. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. inscriptio, fr. inscribere, inscriptum, to inscribe: cf. F. inscription. See Inscribe. ]
a. Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. manu scriptus. See Manual, and Scribe. ] Written with or by the hand; not printed;
n. [ LL. manuscriptum, lit., something written with the hand. See Manuscript, a. ]
☞ The word is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Manuscript. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. non- + L. descriptus described. ]
adj.
n. [ L. postscriptus, (assumed) p. p. of postscribere to write after; post after + scribere to write: cf. F. postscriptum. See Post-, and Scribe. ] A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.
a. Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [ R. ] J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. praescriptus, p. p. of praescribere: cf. F. prescrit. See Prescribe. ] Directed; prescribed. “ A prescript from of words.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]