conscriptiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

conscriptive (comparative more conscriptive, superlative most conscriptive)

1. Pertaining to conscription.
   • 1833, Sir George Ballingall, Outlines of the Course of Lectures on Military Surgery, page 37:

     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 examining conscripts, embracing almost every point on which a doubt or difference of opinion can exist.

   • 1916, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 175, page 714:

     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.

   • 2006, Archie P. McDonald, Historic Smith County:

     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 men from their units to work in the factory.

2. Compulsory; required.
   • 1969, H. Macquarrie, Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs - Volume 2, page 81:

     He pleaded very earnestly for such concurrent legislation which would operate as a conscriptive measure upon the accumulated wealth and resources of the country.

   • 1990, Jenny Corbett, Uneasy Transitions, page 26:

     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 substandard education) to even the most reluctant student. It is not possible to accept any of the arguments put forward above about the conscriptive nature of the new further education, the choking of resources from the further education sector, and the contradictions inherent in the recruitment and training of staff,a nd at the same time expect all staff to be able to deal with the often understandable disaffection of some students.

   • 2010, Battered Suitcase, The Battered Suitcase Autumn 2009, page 46:

     Music and politics have a very strange relationship because music is responsive, politics is kind of... conscriptive, in a sense.

3. (law) Produced through the compulsory participation of the accused; violating the accused's right to avoid self-incrimination.
   • 1999, David M. Paciocco, Getting away with murder: the Canadian criminal justice system:

     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.

   • 2002, Janet L. Hiebert, Charter Conflicts: What is Parliament's Role?, page 137:

     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, Canadian criminal cases, page 248:

     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 to prove on a balance of probabilities that the evidence could have been discovered by alternative, non-conscriptive means.

4. Restrictive; constricting.
   • 2000, Graham L. Hammill, Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon, page 5:

     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 amounts to repetition of the same.

   • 2001, Yang-Un Moon, Guillotine and Elopement, page 94:

     to stretch further out of my too conscriptive size and my feet ache I need space.

   • 2011, I. Buckingham, Brand Champions: How Superheroes bring Brands to Life:

     In these relatively empowered days, employees really do resist the conscriptive, prescriptive or inauthentic.

5. Chosen; adopted.
   • 2007, Edward W. Said, Music at the Limits, page 192:

     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 the sorrow he felt at his mother's death and the disintegration of the family structure), during the middle seventeen-eighties he used music to place himself in a new line of succession, with Haydn his conscriptive father substitute.