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

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

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

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

How shall I superscribe to your new lodgings, pray, madams?

From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift

She endeavoured in vain to superscribe it: so desired me to do it.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

“Private: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,” so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Visiting the gallery one day when a young man, he gazed on the sacred face and read the legend superscribed, “All this I have done for thee; What doest thou for me?”

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown

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

The letter which the boys wrote was superscribed as follows: "To the right high and mighty prince, our most worshipful and greatly redoubted lord and father, the Duke of York, Protector and Defender of England."

From Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

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

"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

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