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

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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Another wrapped round a thin piece of lath with paper, and superscribed it with some strange hieroglyphics, begging me to deliver it.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies

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

Among the letters which had formed part of Rollo's credentials there was one superscribed "To be opened in the camp of General Cabrera."

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

They ought to be written on foolscap paper, leaving a margin, to the left hand, of one-fourth of the breadth, and superscribed on the cover "On H. M. Service."

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

"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

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

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