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superscribe

verb as in address

verb as in direct

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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."

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

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

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.

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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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