inscriptive

[in-skrip-tiv]

adjective

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

Other Word Forms

• inscriptively adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of inscriptive¹

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

Example Sentences

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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