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 Webster, Noah

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 Holcroft, Thomas

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

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

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 Richardson, Samuel