superscribe
[verb]
Synonyms: address, direct

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superscribe verb trans. [su:pǝ'skrʌɪb, 'su:pǝskrʌɪb, sju:-] L15.
[Latin superscribere, formed as SUPER- + scribere write.]
1. Write (a name or other inscription) at the top or on the outside of a document etc. L15.
■ Henry Fielding His Name..is erased, and yours superscribed. Times The Signature was superscribed by the royal sign manual.

2. Write a name, inscription, etc., at the top or on the outside of; inscribe (with); spec. address (a letter) to a person. L16.
■ Steele He received a Message..superscribed With Speed.
■ A. Gray A letter..superscribed to the correspondence page of a..woman's magazine.

3. Write (one letter etc.) above another or above the line of writing. L18.

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