Meanings
adjectiveadscriptive (not comparable)
- not comparableAttached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories; these peasants called adscriptive (pripisneeye) working at the manufactories on certain fixed terms.
1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
Origin
- Latinadscriptivus
- Englishadscriptive
From Latin adscriptivus. See adscript.
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