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

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

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

The Elephant, superscribed "Carnatic"; "Mysore"; "Arcot"; "Condore"; "Wandiwash"; "Pondicherry"; "Guzerat"; "Sholingbur"; "Nundy Droog"; "Amboyna"; "Ternate"; "Banda"; "Seringapatam"; "Kirkee"; "Maheidpoor"; "Beni Boo Alli"; "Asia"; "Aden"; "Mooltan"; "Goojerat"; "Punjaub"; "Pegu"; "Lucknow"; "Relief of Ladysmith"; "South Africa, 1899-1902."

From The Irish at the Front by Michael MacDonagh

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

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

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