I.to receive, admit (like scio in this signif., very rare, perh. only in Verg. and Tac.; cf. “ascisco): si socios sum adscire paratus,” Verg. A. 12, 38: “generum,” id. ib. 11, 472: “adsciri per adoptionem,” Tac. A. 1, 3: “sibi Tiberium adscivit,” id. ib. 4, 57: “adsciri in societatem Germanos,” id. H. 4, 24: “adsciri inter comites,” id. ib. 4, 80: “milites adscire,” id. Agr. 19.
a -scĭo (adsc- , Rib., Halm), īvi (never ii), 4, v. a., like adopto, arrogo, etc., transf. from the sphere of civil law to common life,