conscriptive

Adjective

1. Pertaining to conscription.
   • The many attempts made to evade the operation of the conscriptive laws in France during the revolutionary war, induced the authorities to frame and enact a set of regulations for the guidance of those concerned in...
   • Now, I hate conscription : it is at best a necessary evil; but it is idle for us to pretend that there has been no recognition of the conscriptive principle by the British Empire and amongst the British people. - 1916,...
   • Short overestimated the ability of the gun factory to meet its obligation, especially in light of labor shortages due to voluntary and conscriptive military service and the reluctance of military commanders to detach...
2. Compulsory; required.
   • He pleaded very earnestly for such concurrent legislation which would operate as a conscriptive measure upon the accumulated wealth and resources of the country. - 1969, H. Macquarrie, Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs -...
   • While accepting that teaching has its share of charismatic personalities, it is plainly foolish to expect all staff to be so charismatic that they should be able to 'sell' education and training (particularly suspect or...
   • Music and politics have a very strange relationship because music is responsive, politics is kind of... conscriptive, in a sense. - 2010, Battered Suitcase, The Battered Suitcase Autumn 2009, page 46:
3. Produced through the compulsory participation of the accused; violating the accused's right to avoid self-incrimination.
   • For example, statements made by the accused will be conscriptive. So too will blood samples, breath samples, pulled hairs, re-enactments of the crime, or even the act of standing in an identification lineup. - 1999,...
   • In deciding what constitutes a fair trial, the court has relied heavily on a distinction between what it has labelled as "real" evidence and "conscriptive" evidence. - 2002, Janet L. Hiebert, Charter Conflicts: What is...
   • The first stage requires courts to classify the evidence as either conscriptive or non-conscriptive. If the evidence is classified as conscriptive, the second stage then requires the party seeking to admit the evidence...
4. Restrictive; constricting.
   • But it is also easy to understand how these "underlying" values, assumptions, and generic protocols explicitly rely on relinquishing the particularities of thinking to a conscriptive and regularizing social thought that...
   • to stretch further out of my too conscriptive size and my feet ache I need space. - 2001, Yang-Un Moon, Guillotine and Elopement, page 94:
   • In these relatively empowered days, employees really do resist the conscriptive, prescriptive or inauthentic. - 2011, I. Buckingham, Brand Champions: How Superheroes bring Brands to Life:
5. Chosen; adopted.
   • Whereas his music had once reflected his being caught between "opposed effects" (Solomon provides a particularly informative analysis of the andante/adagio movements of the middle seventeen-seventies, works that convey...