Definition of Conscriptions

1. conscription [n] - See also: conscription

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conscriptions

conscious sedation
consciouses
consciously
consciousness
consciousness-altering drug
consciousness disorders
consciousnesses
conscribe
conscribed
conscribes
conscribing
conscript
conscripted
conscripting
conscription
conscriptions
conscripts
consecrate
consecrated
consecrater
consecraters
consecrates
consecrating
consecration
consecrations
consecrative
consecrator
consecrators
consecratory
consectaneous

Literary usage of Conscriptions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the United States of America by Henry Adams (1921)
"I care nothing more for your actings and doings," wrote Gouverneur Morris to Pickering in Congress.1 " Your decree of conscriptions and your levy of ..."

2. The Political State of Italy by Theodore Lyman (1820)
"Amount of population in 1808—losses by Revolution, robberies, domestic commotions—conscriptions—extraordinary losses readily ..."

3. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte: With Copious (1827)
"... was the granting a levy of eighty thousand men, out of the con- scription for 1807: thus lightly were two conscriptions levied in the same year, ..."

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