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Serf vs Adscript - What's the difference?

serf | adscript |

As nouns the difference between serf and adscript

is that serf is a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights while adscript is a feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it.

As an adjective adscript is

held to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs.

serf

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
  • A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
  • (strategy games) A worker unit.

    • Synonyms

    * (strategy games) peasant, peon, villager

    Derived terms

    * serfage * serfdom * serfhood * serfish * serfism

    Related terms

    * service * servile * servitor * servitude * servo

    See also

    * slave

    Anagrams

    * ----

    adscript

    English

    (wikipedia adscript)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feudal serf or labourer who is attached to an estate and sold or transferred with it.
  • (typography) Something written or printed immediately after another character and aligned with it.

    • See also

    * subscript * superscript

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Held to service as attached to the soil; said of feudal serfs.