Adscript

Adscript (from Latin ad, on or to, and scribere, to write) means something written after, as opposed to subscript which means written under.^[1]

A laborer was called an "adscript of the soil" (adscriptus glebae) when he could be sold or transferred with it, as in feudal days, and as in Russia until 1861.^[1]

See also

Iota adscript

Notes

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1 2 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Adscript". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 218.

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