superscription

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The earlier tradition as to the superscription is obscure, but it would seem that it ought to be considered part of the relic which Constantine sent to Rome.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

The latter took it, looked carefully at the superscription, read it slowly through, then folded it with cool deliberation and put it back into the envelope.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.

"James" is also a homily exhorting to patient endurance, but there is nothing to suggest its having ever been sent anywhere as a letter, save the brief superscription written in imitation of 1st Pet. i.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner

Did Christ think that the money belonged to Cæsar because his image and superscription were stamped upon it?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

"Margaret Van Eyck," was the reply: for they naturally thought the contents were by the same hand as the superscription.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles