CONSCRIPT

a. n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.

2.
n.

One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.

3.
v.

To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.