superscribe
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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
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
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
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
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 Thomas Holcroft
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
She is standing very still, her eyes on one of the letters—a square, perfumed, rose-colored letter superscribed in a lady's delicate tracery, and bearing the monogram "H. H."
From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by May Agnes Fleming
Adrian, coming in, saw Anthony's letter, superscribed and stamped, lying on the table.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
It had been folded and superscribed with all due formality and homage.
From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
After we had come to my cabin and were set down, Mr. Evans hands me two pacquets, one addressed to myself, the other superscribed to one Benjamin Longways.
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
