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superscribe

[soo-per-skrahyb, soo-per-skrahyb] / ˈsu pərˌskraɪb, ˌsu pərˈskraɪb /




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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

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 Richardson, Samuel

The text is preceded by a Brief Preface, which, however, Luther, considering it a part of the Catechism, did not designate and superscribe as such.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

Most people have a lot of attributes and appendages that dress them up and superscribe them, and what I like Gabriel for is that he hasn't any at all.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry

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 Webster, Noah

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Each candidate had a large box with his name superscribed and painted in a distinguishing colour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

It seems to have been an official letter, superscribed by “C. Marshall, Major and A. A. G.”

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

Finally he succeeded in drawing it out uninjured, and saw that it was superscribed to his uncle Hugolin.

From The Doomsman by Sutphen, Van Tassel

Another wrapped round a thin piece of lath with paper, and superscribed it with some strange hieroglyphics, begging me to deliver it.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

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

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)




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