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

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

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

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

Witch is all at present, beginnin and endin to the everlastin power of almighty joys eternal; umbelly beggin leave to superscribe meself.

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

These petitions may be addressed, either to the government, or to the two chambers; nevertheless, even the latter must be superscribed "to his Majesty the Emperor."

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

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

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

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

"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