Conscript
[kən'skrɪpt]
Definition
(verb.) enroll into service compulsorily; 'The men were conscripted'.
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Enrolled; written; registered.
(n.) One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
(v. t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
Checked by Gilbert
Examples
- We are making a huge conscript army without the time to implant the discipline that a conscript army must have, to behave properly under fire. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They will fight nature no longer as dull conscripts of the pick and plough, but for a splendid conquest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His conscripts were generally old men and boys. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He now had principally conscripts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The father in 1811, at the age of twenty, was one of Napoleon's conscripts, and in 1814 received from the Emperor, for valor and fidelity, the Cross of t he Legion of Honor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the 23d of October I learned of Pemberton's being in command at Holly Springs and much reinforced by conscripts and troops from Alabama and Texas. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Louis