inscriptive
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of inscriptive
1730–40; < Latin inscrīpt ( us ) past participle of inscrībere ( see inscription) + -ive
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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.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
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