conscriptive

Adjective

conscriptive (comparative more conscriptive, superlative most conscriptive)

1. Pertaining to conscription.
   • The many attempts made to evade the operation of the conscriptive laws in France during the revolutionary war, induced the authorities to frame and enact a set of regulations for the guidance of those concerned in examining conscripts, embracing almost every point on which a doubt or difference of...1833, Sir George Ballingall, Outlines of the Course of Lectures on Military Surgery, page 37
   • Now, I hate conscription : it is at best a necessary evil; but it is idle for us to pretend that there has been no recognition of the conscriptive principle by the British Empire and amongst the British people.1916, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 175, page 714
2. Compulsory; required.
   • He pleaded very earnestly for such concurrent legislation which would operate as a conscriptive measure upon the accumulated wealth and resources of the country.1969, H. Macquarrie, Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs - Volume 2, page 81
   • While accepting that teaching has its share of charismatic personalities, it is plainly foolish to expect all staff to be so charismatic that they should be able to 'sell' education and training (particularly suspect or substandard education) to even the most reluctant student. It is not possible...1990, Jenny Corbett, Uneasy Transitions, page 26
3. Produced through the compulsory participation of the accused; violating the accused's right to avoid self-incrimination.
   • For example, statements made by the accused will be conscriptive. So too will blood samples, breath samples, pulled hairs, re-enactments of the crime, or even the act of standing in an identification lineup.1999, David M. Paciocco, Getting away with murder: the Canadian criminal justice system
   • In deciding what constitutes a fair trial, the court has relied heavily on a distinction between what it has labelled as "real" evidence and "conscriptive" evidence.2002, Janet L. Hiebert, Charter Conflicts: What is Parliament's Role?, page 137
4. Restrictive; constricting.
   • But it is also easy to understand how these "underlying" values, assumptions, and generic protocols explicitly rely on relinquishing the particularities of thinking to a conscriptive and regularizing social thought that amounts to repetition of the same.2000, Graham L. Hammill, Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon, page 5
   • to stretch further out of my too conscriptive size and my feet ache I need space.2001, Yang-Un Moon, Guillotine and Elopement, page 94
5. Chosen; adopted.
   • Whereas his music had once reflected his being caught between "opposed effects" (Solomon provides a particularly informative analysis of the andante/adagio movements of the middle seventeen-seventies, works that convey the sorrow he felt at his mother's death and the disintegration of the family...2007, Edward W. Said, Music at the Limits, page 192