Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Conscript \Con"script\, a. [L. conscriptus, p. p. of conscribere
   to write together, to enroll; con- + scribere to write. See
   {Scribe}.]
   Enrolled; written; registered.

   {Conscript fathers} (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient
      Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with
      the ``fathers'' the body was called Patres et Conscripti;
      afterward all were called Patres conscripti.