Word Meanings - CONSCRIPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet. 2. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

Related words: (words related to CONSCRIPTION)

• REGISTERING
  Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
• ENROLLER
  One who enrolls or registers.
• DRAFT
  1. Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught. 2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. Note: The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• REGISTERSHIP
  The office of a register.
• COMPULSORY
  1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining. 2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.
• DRAFTSMAN
  See DRAUGHTSMAN
• SERVICEABLE
  1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well,
• SERVICE; SERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small,
• SERVICEAGE
  Servitude. Fairfax.
• REGISTER
  One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds. 4. That which registers or records. Specifically: A contrivance
• ENROLLMENT
  1. The act of enrolling; registration. Holland. 2. A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record. Sir J. Davies.
• MILITARY
  1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
• NAVALS
  Naval affairs.
• SERVICE UNIFORM
  The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dress, full dress, etc. In the United States army it is of olive-drab woolen or khaki-colored cotton, with all metal attachments of dull-finish bronze, with
• SERVICE CAP; SERVICE HAT
  A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki
• ENROLL
  1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist. An
• CONSCRIPTION
  1. An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet. 2. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• UNSERVICE
  Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. Massinger.
• CASH REGISTER
  A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.
• SELF-REGISTERING
  Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.
• OVERDRAFT
  The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.
• SUPERSERVICEABLE
  Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired. "A superserviceable, finical rogue." Shak.
• KNIGHT SERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• INREGISTER
  To register; to enter, as in a register. Walsh.
• DISSERVICEABLE
  Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv.