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Definition of Inscribes
1. inscribe [v] - See also: inscribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inscribes
Literary usage of Inscribes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"... literature or in attending such meetings as those of an ' essay club,' to the
members of which he inscribes his clever and witty, if somewhat irregular, ..."
2. The Question of Our Speech: The Lesson of Balzac; Two Lectures by Henry James (1905)
"... with wondrous illumination and enhancement of gold and crimson and blue, he
inscribes the glories of the faith and the legends of the saints. ..."
3. Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life by Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1852)
"... and had received undoubted demonstration of his many virtues, inscribes this
voluntary tribute of truth and respect to his memory. ..."
4. Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of by Horace Wemyss Smith (1880)
"MUCH PART IN IT—BUILDS AND Inscribes A MAUSOLEUM—DEATH OF HIS SISTER AND HIS MAN
PRIMUS—His LAST WILL, THE early part of this year ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"... and the motion thus produced is conveyed to a pencil that inscribes a line
upon a strip of paper. This line is a permanent record of the temperature. ..."
6. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1809)
"... The sire remembers, and the mother weeps; Still the friend grieves, who saw
thy vernal bloom, And here, sad task! inscribes it on thy tomb. ..."
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