- a variation of ascription.
adscription
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And first the common adscription, and yet out of the former adscription, after this manner.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
Therefore a right line proportionall cut, doth thus make the adscription of a quinquangle: And from thence againe is afforded a line proportionally cut.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
Adscription of a Circle is with any triangle: But with a triangulate it is with that onely which is ordinate: And indeed adscription of a Circle is common to all.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
This couplet sufficiently explains the ground of his adscription to the society of gods distinguished for their beauty.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
And thus is the common adscription of a circle: The adscription of a rectilineall followeth, and first of a Triangle.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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