[f. CONSCRIPT a. or ppl. stem of L. conscrībĕre. It appears to have originated during the U.S. Civil War of 1860–65.] trans. To compel to military service by conscription; to enlist compulsorily; = CONSCRIBE 4. Hence Conscripted ppl. a.
1865. W. Whitman, Specimen Days (1888), 62. He was first conscripted for two years.
1880. Atlantic Monthly, July, 22. I had been conscripted and forced into the army.
1887. Spectator, 18 June, 824/2. The conscripted soldiers are always ready for a mutiny.
1889. Pall Mall G., 23 April, 2/3. If we must conscript and train our youth … in great camps.
