adscript

From Latin adscriptus, past participle of adscribere (“to enroll”). See ascribe.

adscript (plural adscripts)

1. A feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it.
2. (typography) Something written or printed immediately after another character and aligned with it.

• subscript
• superscript

adscript (not comparable)

1. Held to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs.

adscript (third-person singular simple present adscripts, present participle adscripting, simple past and past participle adscripted)

1. (transitive) To hold (a person) to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs.

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