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Definition of Inscribing
1. inscribe [v] - See also: inscribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inscribing
Literary usage of Inscribing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"The inscribing of the Jive regular solids in a sphere. ... 132-G2) solves the
problems of inscribing each of the five regular solids in a given sphere. ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"... we were simply inscribing it, to provide for the debentures as payment was
required, and by so doing we saved the charges otherwise entailed if we had ..."
3. The Life of John Milton by Charles Symmons (1822)
"... the author gave additional value by inscribing its first page with a Latin
ode; a composition entitled to considerable though not to unqualified praise. ..."
4. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"take of inscribing the story of Le Fever to her name; for which I have no other
motive, which my heart has informed me of, but that the story is a humane ..."
5. The Northern Courts: Containing Original Memoirs of the Sovereigns of Sweden by John Brown (1818)
"... (mentioned by Mr. Coxe)* in the agonies of death, his face expressing a love
of glory subduing pain, and inscribing on his shield Aii ..."
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