inscribe
verb (used with object)
to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Do these people know what they're doing – they are inscribing Chinua's epitaph in the negative mode of thwarted expectations.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2013