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
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
You cannot Mister him, and you cannot Esquire him, and there is, therefore, no question as to what you shall superscribe him.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
How shall I superscribe to your new lodgings, pray, madams?
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
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
Finally he succeeded in drawing it out uninjured, and saw that it was superscribed to his uncle Hugolin.
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
It seems to have been an official letter, superscribed by “C. Marshall, Major and A. A. G.”
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
The envelope is superscribed, "Hints and Mems for H.T. during his residence at the Court of M———."
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
"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
