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Definition of Superscribes
1. superscribe [v] - See also: superscribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superscribes
Literary usage of Superscribes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland: Preserved at Welbeck Abbey by John Nalson, Robert Harley Oxford, William Stratford, James Joel Cartwright, Richard Ward (1893)
"... nor would I have her live as a broken merchant's 'wife, but as our sister. "
Pray Sir inform your chirk who superscribes your letters that ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... opposite — about whom you delight to tell the naughty anecdote that they have
a malicious cousin who superscribes his letters to Gentility Square, ..."
3. The Tatler by Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Richard Steele (1822)
"He superscribes: ' To the younger of the two ladies in mourning (who sat in the
hindmost seat of the middle box at Mr. Winstanley's ..."
4. Journal of Theological Studies (1904)
"2 apparently marks the final s in each case for cancel 1. 9 m. 3 superscribes -ess-
over the latter part of transtulit, perhaps meaning ..."
5. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"... this he superscribes the first Allegro vivace in the autograph with the same
words. In the later copy this phrase is changed to "Prayer for internal and ..."
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