conscript

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONSCRIPT, adjective [Latin , to enroll; to write.] Written; enrolled; as conscript fathers, the senators of Rome, so called because their names were written in the register of the senate. CONSCRIPT, noun [Latin] An enrolled soldier; a word used in France.
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