What does "conscriptive" mean?
Pertaining to conscription.
Conscriptive
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Pertaining to conscription.
- Grammar: conscriptive is listed as adj.
- Nearest alternatives: conscripting.
- Usage evidence: The many attempts made to evade the operation of the conscriptive laws in France during the revolutionary war, induced the authorities to frame and enact a set of regulations for the guidance of those concerned in examining conscripts, embracing almost every point on which a doubt or difference of opinion can exist.
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Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to conscription.
"The many attempts made to evade the operation of the conscriptive laws in France during the revolutionary war, induced the authorities to frame and enact a set of regulations for the guidance of those concerned in examining conscripts, embracing almost every point on which a doubt or difference of opinion can exist."
- 2 Compulsory; required.
"He pleaded very earnestly for such concurrent legislation which would operate as a conscriptive measure upon the accumulated wealth and resources of the country."
- 3 Produced through the compulsory participation of the accused; violating the accused's right to avoid self-incrimination.
"For example, statements made by the accused will be conscriptive. So too will blood samples, breath samples, pulled hairs, re-enactments of the crime, or even the act of standing in an identification lineup."
- 4 Restrictive; constricting.
"But it is also easy to understand how these "underlying" values, assumptions, and generic protocols explicitly rely on relinquishing the particularities of thinking to a conscriptive and regularizing social thought that amounts to repetition of the same."
- 5 Chosen; adopted.
"Whereas his music had once reflected his being caught between "opposed effects" (Solomon provides a particularly informative analysis of the andante/adagio movements of the middle seventeen-seventies, works that convey the sorrow he felt at his mother's death and the disintegration of the family structure), during the middle seventeen-eighties he used music to place himself in a new line of succession, with Haydn his conscriptive father substitute."
Synonyms
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"The many attempts made to evade the operation of the conscriptive laws in France during the revolutionary war, induced the authorities to frame and enact a set of regulations for the guidance of those concerned in examining conscripts, embracing almost every point on which a doubt or difference of opinion can exist."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "conscriptive"?
Common synonyms include: conscripting.
How do you use "conscriptive" in a sentence?
The many attempts made to evade the operation of the conscriptive laws in France during the revolutionary war, induced the authorities to frame and enact a set of regulations for the guidance of those concerned in examining conscripts, embracing almost every point on which a doubt or difference of opinion can exist.
Etymology
From conscript + -ive.