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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conscript \Con"script\, n.
One taken by lot or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a
soldier or sailor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conscript \Con*script"\, v. t.
To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conscript \Con"script\, a. [L. conscriptus p. p. of conscribere
to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See
{Scribe}.]
Enrolled; written; registered.
{Conscript fathers} (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient
Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with
the ``fathers'' the body was called Patres et Conscripti;
afterward all were called Patres conscripti.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
conscript
n : a serviceman who is drafted [syn: {draftee}] [ant: {volunteer}]
v : cause to assemble or enlist; "raise an army" [syn: {recruit},
{levy}, {raise}]
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