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Example sentences for "adscripti"

Lexicographically close words:
adrift; adroit; adroitly; adroitness; adscititious; adsorbed; adsorption; aduance; aduanced; aduancement
  1. Until all these have been repaid by the improvement in the rent or productive powers of the land, they must remain, as working out their emancipation from the lord of the soil, veritable "adscripti glebae.

  2. He ordained, therefore, that they should be attached to the plantations, and made, though free labourers, a sort of adscripti glebae for five years.

  3. The second of villains regardent, who were adscripti glebae, or attached as freehold property to the soil.

  4. These latter were prædial serfs 'adscripti glebæ,' but not slaves.

  5. The fact that it was worth while to preserve a record of the pedigree of the geburs shows that they were adscripti glebæ.

  6. The chief family was strong enough to protect fugitives, and fugitives came to them accepting at once, in return for their lives, the status of kitchen men (adscripti glebae).

  7. Lastly came the villeins, the Kai Loki and the Kai Nandoria, who were adscripti glebae, and whose proprietary rights in the soil were so slight as to be almost indefinable.

  8. In the old days, when forests were sold, the inhabitants were actually entered in the contract as part of the effects, as, in former times, the landlord sold the adscripti or ascripti glebae with the land.


  9. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adscripti" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.