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 so I wonce and again most perrumptallee beg leave, in all lowliness by the grace and blessin of God in his infinit goodness and mercy to superscribe meself.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
I imagine that by this time you are at Paris; or will be before the arrival of this letter; which, according to your directions, I shall superscribe Poste restante.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
He could barely see to sign his name and superscribe the envelope.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is that superscribed in the handwriting of Captain Ryecroft, which the companion had for the time forgotten; she having no thought that it would have anything to do with the young lady’s disappearance.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
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 Q. K. Philander Doesticks
I looked over her shoulder and broke into a cold perspiration at beholding an execrable three-quarters length cut of my darling son superscribed by his name in holograph.
From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Robert Grant
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
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 William Ernst Browning
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
"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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