adjective
- bound to the soil and transferred with it
Usage: historical; legal
noun
- a serf or peasant bound to the land
Usage: historical
Examples
- The adscript peasants could not leave their lord’s estate.
- Medieval adscript laborers were tied to the land they worked.
- The feudal system included many adscript serfs.
- An adscript was considered part of the property when land was sold.
- The lord owned both the manor and its adscript population.
- Adscript status was often hereditary in medieval Europe.