superscription

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"I have seen it myself, Richard," said Sir John Grey; "the superscription is clear and distinct--'To Sir Thomas Grey, Knight,'--and not one word is mentioned therein of anything like ransom."

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

"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

If next we turn to the more general epistle known as 1st John the lack of any superscription is more than counterbalanced by the writer's full and explicit declarations regarding motive and occasion.

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

"It appeared," says Prof. Lyell, "from his explanation of 'Whose superscription is this?' that he supposed the piece of money to be a dollar note, to which C�sar had put his signature."

From Slavery and the Constitution by Bowditch, William Ingersoll

I started, as one does at an unexpected presence, to find an envelope among them with his familiar superscription.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter