[ad. L. adscrīptiōn-em (also ascriptiōn-em) n. of action, f. adscrīb-ĕre or ascrīb-ĕre to write to, to add in writing. Commonly ASCRIPTION, exc. in senses 2, 3.]
1. = ASCRIPTION.
1857. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., II. 510. Good Queen Anne has no peculiar claim to that adscription of benignity.
1880. Warren, Bk.-plates, xviii. 194. The purport, date, and adscription of each individual book-plate.
† 2. spec. The describing of one geometrical figure about, or within, another; a general term including circumscribing and inscribing. Obs.
1660. T. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 9/1. The second, third, fourth, and fifth propositions of the fourth Book of Euclid … concerning the adscription of a Triangle and a Circle.
3. [From med.L. adscriptus glebæ; see ADSCRIPT.] Attachment as a feudal inferior.
1872. E. Robertson, Hist. Ess., 159. This personal adscription to the overlord is the real source of the feeling … described as ‘clannish.’
