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
And, for fear of being traced by Mr. Lovelace, I directed her to superscribe her answer, To Mrs. Mary Atkins; to be left till called for, at the Belle Savage Inn, on Ludgate-hill.'
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson
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 Samuel Richardson
Most people have a lot of attributes and appendages that dress them up and superscribe them, and what I like Gabriel for is that he hasn't any at all.
From The Tragic Muse by Henry James
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 F. (Friedrich) Bente
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
The note was superscribed in the captain's well-known hand, but it was the writing evidently of one who wrote feebly.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
The letter was signed, and folded, and superscribed, but unsealed.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
The envelope is superscribed, "Hints and Mems for H.T. during his residence at the Court of M———."
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
These petitions may be addressed, either to the government, or to the two chambers; nevertheless, even the latter must be superscribed "to his Majesty the Emperor."
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 William Ernst Browning
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
"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 Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
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