Pertaining to or characterized by adscription; relating to binding or attachment by law or custom.
From Latin 'adscriptitius,' derived from 'adscriptus' with the added suffix '-itius.' This variant form appears in historical and legal English texts.
Notice how Latin could stack suffixes—'adscript' became 'adscriptitious,' which is just a fancier way of saying the same thing, showing how redundancy crept into English legal language and made documents even harder to read.
Adjective form of adscript, carrying the same feudal gender blindness: systems of bound labor were gendered but legal/historical language concealed women's specific subjection.
Use with explicit gender analysis when discussing adscriptitious systems; name how control over women's bodies and reproduction was core to adscriptitious feudalism.
["relating to bound labor (gendered)","feudal (with gender specificity)"]
Recovering women's agency within and resistance to adscriptitious regimes is an ongoing project in feminist medieval history.
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