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

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

From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The essays were to be superscribed, as usual in such competitions, with a motto, and the writer's name and address had to be forwarded in a sealed envelope, with the same motto outside.

From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller

She is standing very still, her eyes on one of the letters—a square, perfumed, rose-colored letter superscribed in a lady's delicate tracery, and bearing the monogram "H. H."

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by May Agnes Fleming

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

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

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

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