superscribe

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

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

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

How shall I superscribe to your new lodgings, pray, madams?

From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift

He could barely see to sign his name and superscribe the envelope.

From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."

From Time Magazine Archive

In a few moments a waiter brought in a note, superscribed John Withers, Esq.

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

It enclosed a second letter superscribed to Mr. George Kelly, and prayed the banker to add to the superscription Mr. Kelly's address.

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

It is included in a sixth revise, in which lines 244-246 have been erased, and the present reading superscribed.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Visiting the gallery one day when a young man, he gazed on the sacred face and read the legend superscribed, “All this I have done for thee; What doest thou for me?”

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown

"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

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

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