mindmap root((SCRIB/SCRIP)) conscription Enforced enlistment of persons, especially for military service; draft.
🌱The first comprehensive system for nationwide conscription was instituted by France for the Napoleonic wars that followed the French Revolution. 🌳With its scrip- root, conscription means basically writing someone's name on a list—a list that, unfortunately, a lot of people usually don't want to be on. Conscription has existed at least since ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom （27th century B.C.）, though universal conscription has been rare throughout history. Forms of conscription were used by Prussia, Switzerland, Russia, and other European powers in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the U.S., conscription was first applied during the Civil War, by both the North and the South. In the North there were pockets of resistance, and the draft led to riots in several cities. The U.S. abandoned conscription at the end of the war and didn't revive it until World War I. circumscribe 1、 To clearly limit the range or activity of something.
2、 To draw a line around or to surround with a boundary.
🌱Some children do best when their freedom is clearly circumscribed and their activities are supervised. 🌳The prefix circum-,"around," is the key to circumscribe's basic meaning. Thus, we could say that a boxing ring is circumscribed by ropes, just as the area for an archaeological dig may be. A governor's power is always circumscribed by a state's constitution. And a physician's assistant has a circumscribed role that doesn't include writing prescriptions. inscription 1、 Something permanently written, engraved, or printed, particularly on a building, coin, medal, or piece of currency.
2、 The dedication of a book or work of art.
🌱All U.S. coins bear the Latin inscription "E pluribus unum"—"From many, one." 🌳With its prefix in-, meaning "in" or "on," it's not surprising that an inscription is either written on or engraved into a surface. Inscriptions in the ancient world were always chiseled into stone, as inscriptions still may be today. The principal monument of the Vietnam memorial in Washington, D.C., for instance, is a black wall on which are inscribed the names of all the Americans who died during the war—each name in full, row upon seemingly endless row. But an inscription may also be a dedication, such as the words "For my wife" all by themselves on a page near the beginning of a book. proscribe To forbid as harmful or unlawful; prohibit.
🌱Despite thousands of laws proscribing littering, many of America's streets and public spaces continue to be dumping grounds. 🌳The Latin prefix pro- sometimes meant "before," in the sense of "in front of" the people. So in ancient Rome proscribere meant to make public in writing the name of a person who was about to be executed, and whose property would be seized by the state. But the meaning of the English word soon shifted to mean simply "prohibit" instead. Proscribe today is actually often the opposite of the very similar prescribe, which means basically "require."