Inscribed
[ɪn'skraɪbd] or [ɪn'skraɪb]
Definition
(adj.) written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface .
Typist: Naomi--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Inscribe
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Examples
- She was a warlike power, and inscribed upon her banners many a brilliant fight with Genoese and Turks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- MY limits are inscribed on that Document. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Dozens of photographs of this sort, and all inscribed in this manner, were completed before I left Cumberland, and hundreds more remain to be done. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- For example, the sid e of a hexagon inscribed in a circle is equal to the radius, and is the chord of 60°, or of the sixth part of the circle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I awoke with them, often, in the night; I remember to have even read them, in dreams, inscribed upon the walls of houses. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Out of his waistcoat, as usual, grows a tree, on the main branches of which the above illustrious names are inscribed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Thirdly, A certain figure inscribed on each side. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- There is a narrow path leading to it—a glade near the western pass, in the center of which is an altar inscribed Θε?ν. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I, who would sign my own death-warrant but once again to kiss the dear hand which inscribed this beautiful little note! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I do not mean to be conferred in Baptism upon our children, but to be inscribed on Bills of Exchange, and negotiated in the Money Market. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- THE ALTAR INSCRIBED ΘΕ?Ν. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Because I am not inscribed from Noya but from Negreira, where I was born. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The victim of her witcheries can only name the fatal scroll, the spell inscribed on which is, doubtless, the cause of his silence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Finally I heard a click, the broad green door swung open, and inside I had a glimpse of a number of paper packets, each tied, sealed, and inscribed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Over the porch of his school, the Academy at Athe) ns, were inscribed the words, Let no one who is unacquainted with geometry enter here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I inscribed it to my friend Ralph; I printed a small number. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Before printing was an art, he inscribed on it his literature. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Will my dear Miss Crawley not cast an eye of compassion upon the heroic soldier, whose name is inscribed in the annals of his country's glory? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The victorious general, however, buried him with honor, and on the tomb of the mathematician caused to be inscribed the sphere with its enclosing cylinder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The summit is crowned with a cap of aluminum, inscribed _Laus Deo_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Four sides are supposed in the present case to have the same figure inscribed on them, and two to have another figure. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- She reposed beside her beloved, and the tomb above was inscribed with the united names of Raymond and Perdita. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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