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con⋅scribe

[kuhn-skrahyb]
–verb (used with object), -scribed, -scrib⋅ing.
1. to constrict or limit; circumscribe.
2. to force into military service; conscript.

Origin:
1540–50; < L conscrībere to enroll, enlist, equiv. to con- con- + scrībere to write
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