Adscriptive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Adscriptive is an adjective meaning Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Meaning
Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adscript, legatine, leased, jointured, landowning, libellary.
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