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Definition of Adscript
1. Adjective. Written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it.
2. Adjective. (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner. "An adscript serf"
Definition of Adscript
1. a. Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
2. n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Definition of Adscript
1. Noun. (typography) Something written or printed immediately after another character and aligned with it. ¹
2. Noun. A feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adscript
1. a distinguishing symbol written after another character [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adscript
Literary usage of Adscript
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe by John Addington Symonds (1880)
"... nor did Virgil hesitate to flatter Augustus by questioning into which college
of the immortals he would be adscript after death : Tuque adeo, ..."
2. Opera omnia: ex editione Baumgarten-Crusii, cum notis et interpretatione in by Suetonius (1826)
"... Domicilio ex urbe in coloniam translate, aut certe ita in coloniam adscript!, nt
connu domicilia alibi essent ..."
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