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
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
How shall I superscribe to your new lodgings, pray, madams?
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
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
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
Three of the envelopes were sealed and superscribed, and two were stamped.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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 by Mayne Reid
Adrian, coming in, saw Anthony's letter, superscribed and stamped, lying on the table.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
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
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
"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
