adscriptive

English

Etymology

From Latin adscriptivus. See adscript.

Adjective

adscriptive (not comparable)

1. Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
   • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:

     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.