adscript
/ˈædˌskrɪpt/
noun
- A person who is bound to a particular piece of land or estate, especially in a feudal system; a serf.
- In medieval times, an adscript could not leave the land without the lord's permission.
- The adscripts worked the fields and gave a portion of their harvest to the landowner.
- Historians study the lives of adscripts to understand feudal society.
Antonyms
adjective
- Bound or attached to something, especially land or a document.
- In ancient Rome, some farmers were adscript to the land they worked.
- The adscript laborer had few rights under the old system.
- The clause was adscript to the main contract, making it binding.