adscriptive
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin adscriptivus. See adscript.
Adjective
editadscriptive (not comparable)
- 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.