superscribe
Americanverb (used with object)
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to write (words, letters, one's name, address, etc.) above or on something.
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to inscribe or mark with writing at the top or on the outside or surface of; put an inscription above or on.
to superscribe the cover of a text with corrections.
verb
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Etymology
Origin of superscribe
1590–1600; < Latin superscrībere, equivalent to super- super- + scrībere to write; see scribe 1
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One, Steve Miner's Lake Placid, a killer-crocodile epic that co-star Oliver Platt has called a "Jaws with neurotics," was written by TV superscribe David E. Kelley.
From Time Magazine Archive
You cannot Mister him, and you cannot Esquire him, and there is, therefore, no question as to what you shall superscribe him.
From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean
Witch is all at present, beginnin and endin to the everlastin power of almighty joys eternal; umbelly beggin leave to superscribe meself.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
She endeavoured in vain to superscribe it: so desired me to do it.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel
The text is preceded by a Brief Preface, which, however, Luther, considering it a part of the Catechism, did not designate and superscribe as such.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was superscribed in a firm, manly hand, and was, it must be, from Dr. Vaughan.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.
Among the letters which had formed part of Rollo's credentials there was one superscribed "To be opened in the camp of General Cabrera."
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
It seems to have been an official letter, superscribed by “C. Marshall, Major and A. A. G.”
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
A few days after the events recorded in the last chapter, a letter was received at the residence of one of the compilers of these records, superscribed Q.K.
From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander
She had posters for the entire State printed in Rochester, her father, brother Merritt, and Mary Luther folding and superscribing to all the postmasters and the sheriff of every county.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
"Let me take your mail out to little Pete," I said to the Doctor, who was superscribing his last letter, when I came in from the morning's sport.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
Sū′perscript, Superscrip′tion, act of superscribing: that which is written or engraved above or on the outside.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Written, signed, and sealed, five minutes and eleven seconds after the receipt of yours, allowing seven seconds for sealing and superscribing, from my bed-side, just eleven minutes after eleven, Sept.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst
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