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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee.
  • adjective Enrolled compulsorily; drafted.
  • transitive verb To enroll compulsorily into service; draft.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Registered; enrolled.
  • noun One who is compulsorily enrolled for military or naval service.
  • To enroll compulsorily for military or naval service; force into service; draft.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
  • adjective Enrolled; written; registered.
  • adjective (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.
  • transitive verb To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
  • adjective Drafted.
  • verb transitive To enrol(l) compulsorily; to draft; to induct.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who is drafted into military service
  • verb enroll into service compulsorily

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin cōnscrīptus, past participle of cōnscrībere, to enroll : com-, com- + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin cōnscriptus, perfect passive participle of cōnscrībō ("write together; enroll").

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