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Definition of Conscribe
1. v. t. To enroll; to enlist.
Definition of Conscribe
1. [v -SCRIBED, -SCRIBING, -SCRIBES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conscribe
Literary usage of Conscribe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama: During by Alabama Supreme Court (1864)
"As the authority to conscribe does not extend to the individuals who compose
those classes, it cau only be exercised by ascertaining the persons to whom the ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"The war powers of the executive as well as of the legislative branches of the
government, namely, the right to declare martial law, to conscribe, ..."
3. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"I learn an order has been issued to conscribe all commissary and quartermasters'
clerks liable to military service. There will be, and ought to be, ..."
4. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1882)
"If you write to me, I pray conscribe it to be delivered in Mushing at the house
of Mr. Henry Kerker, for I purpose, God willing, to goe shortly thither, ..."
5. The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865: A Financial and Industrial by John Christopher Schwab (1901)
"A majority of a joint committee of the State legislature echoed the Governor's
sentiments by declaring that the Congress had no power to conscribe citizens ..."
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