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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it [ant: inferior, subscript, superior, superscript]
2: (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner; "an adscript serf" [syn: adscript, adscripted]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Adscript Ad"script, a. [L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe.] Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Adscript Ad"script, n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf. --Bancroft.