inscriptive

American

[in-skrip-tiv] / ɪnˈskrɪp tɪv /

adjective

of, relating to, or of the nature of an inscription.

Other Word Forms

inscriptively adverb

Etymology

Origin of inscriptive

1730–40; < Latin inscrīpt ( us ) past participle of inscrībere ( inscription ) + -ive

Example Sentences

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Hardly less so are a fleet crossing Mount Athos, an army treading the Hellespont, a sun eclipsed by Persian arrows, a flying Xerxes, an admired Leonidas, an inscriptive Othryades.

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