superscribe

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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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

"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 Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

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 Browning, William Ernst

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