Crossword clues for superscribe
superscribe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superscribe \Su`per*scribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Superscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Superscribing.] [L. superscribere, superscriptum; super over + scribere to write. See Super-, and Scribe.] To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"write on the surface" (especially of an envelope), 1590s, from Latin superscribere "write over or above" (see superscript). Related: Superscribed; superscribing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to write on the exterior of, the surface of, or above. 2 (context transitive English) to write (something) on the exterior of an object, such as a document or an envelope. 3 (context transitive English) To address (an envelope etc.).
WordNet
v. write on the top or outside; "superscribe one's name and address"
write on the outside or upper part of; "superscribe an envelope"
Usage examples of "superscribe".
The grace of God is like a bullion mass of purest gold, and then Jesus Christ is the great ingot of that gold, and then Moses, and David, and Isaiah, and Hosea, and Paul, and Peter, and John are the inspired artists who have commission to take both bullion and ingot, and out of them to cut, and beat, and smelt, and shape, and stamp, and superscribe the promises, and then to issue the promises to pass current in the market of salvation like so many shekels, and pounds, and pence, and farthings, and mites, as the case may be.
He signed his name, folded, superscribed and sealed the letter, then sat on, studying the picture before him.
Within its ancient, deep entrance he broke seal and opened the paper superscribed by Mrs.
When Mordaunt called the next morning, he found Clarence much better, and carelessly turning over various books, part of the contents of the luggage superscribed C.
After some little time, he produced what appeared to Zack to be an inordinately long letter, written in a cramped hand, and superscribed apparently with two long lines of inscription, instead of an ordinary address.
And it was just these royal coins, imaged and superscribed so richly and so beautifully, that Clip-Promise so mutilated, abused, and debased, till for doing so he was hanged by the neck till he was dead.
I had hitherto kept watch, and repairing to the outer chamber, took forth the packet superscribed with my name.
I looked over her shoulder and broke into a cold perspiration at beholding an execrable three-quarters length cut of my darling son superscribed by his name in holograph.
It was superscribed with a name unknown to any of the family, and in a hand which its badness rendered almost illegible.
Hannibal blew gently on the wax to harden it, and superscribed the letter to J.
There was a package in one of them superscribed to “Prince Taxis, the Governor of Trent.
In his own room, at his own hotel, he had dozens of well-filled envelopes superscribed in that character.