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.
had inscribed
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past perfectof inscribe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Then he gave me a signed copy of the book that he had inscribed, “Why not?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
She told me that she sometimes got calls from a man who had stolen a book that Salinger had inscribed to her family, which he had then sold to the Morgan Library.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2017
She had inscribed her belief she could beat Mattsson and Yoshida at the Olympics with the requisite work.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2016
Last year at a Bonhams auction in Los Angeles, a book of Solomon’s love poems that he had inscribed to the writer Algernon Charles Swinburne brought $17,500.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2015
On the headboard of one of the beds, some past student had inscribed, with a Sharpie and a careful hand: ipsa scientia potestas est.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
