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adscriptive

adscriptive adjective: attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.

Adjective

adscriptive (not comparable)

  1. Attached 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 of adscriptive

From Latin adscriptivus. See adscript.

Questions about adscriptive

What does adscriptive mean?
Adscriptive means attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
What part of speech is adscriptive?
Adscriptive is an adjective.

Words near adscriptive in the dictionary

  1. adscript
  2. adscripted
  3. adscripting
  4. adscription
  5. adscriptions
  6. adscriptive
  7. adscripts
  8. ADSCs
  9. AdSeg
  10. adseverin
  11. Adshead

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