ppl. a. [formally pa. pple. of adscribe, L. adscrīb-ĕre, f. ad to + scrīb-ĕre to write; also written ascrībĕre, whence in other senses ASCRIBE.] Described upon, applied to a given line or dimension of a figure.
1685. Wallis, Secants, in Misc. Cur., 1708, II. 9. Which formed an Adscribed Figure made up of those Parallelograms.
