Both Uses of
conscript
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it.†
Chpt 2
- This was not the Belgian Army, official conscripted protectors of white people, but a group of young men who held secret meetings in the woods behind our house.†
Chpt 2 *conscripted = drafted (forced by law) into military service
Definition:
draft (force someone by law) into military service; or the person drafted