superscribe

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"There is the letter," replied Manners, "with your titles, nomen and cognomen, as clearly superscribed as ever I saw them written:--Captain the Honourable Edward de Vaux, with many et c�teras."

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To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.

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It enclosed a second letter superscribed to Mr. George Kelly, and prayed the banker to add to the superscription Mr. Kelly's address.

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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.

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It was superscribed with a name unknown to any of the family, and in a hand which its badness rendered almost illegible.

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