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
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
How shall I superscribe to your new lodgings, pray, madams?
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
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
The letter was superscribed to "the President of the United Stales."
From Time Magazine Archive
With the ardour that might have been expected I first tore open the envelope superscribed by Inez.
From The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by W. Christian Symons
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 letter was signed, and folded, and superscribed, but unsealed.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
It was superscribed in a firm, manly hand, and was, it must be, from Dr. Vaughan.
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
"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
