conscribe

English

Etymology

From Latin conscribere. See conscript.

Verb

conscribe (third-person singular simple present conscribes, present participle conscribing, simple past and past participle conscribed)

  1. (obsolete) To enroll; to enlist.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for conscribe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

conscrībe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of conscrībō
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