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verb

Inscribe v. t. (past & past part. inscribed; pres. part. inscribing)

1.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. "Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone."

2.

To mark with letters, characters, or words. "O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone."

3.

To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.

4.

To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

5.

(Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries. Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.

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"Inscribe" Quotes from Famous Books

... I saw in the manner my wife's petition was presented, that Mr. Curtis was acting under instructions, and I saw the reporters prick up their ears.' Turning to Mrs. Stanton, he asked, 'You are so tenacious about your own name, why did you not inscribe my wife's maiden name, Mary Cheney Greeley, on her petition?' 'Because,' she replied, 'I wanted all the world to know that it was the wife of Horace Greeley who protested against her husband's report.' 'Well,' ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... might be to those over the graves of her grandmother and grandfather. I gave the dates and places of her birth and death, but added nothing except that this stone was set up by one who had known and loved her. Knowing how fond she had been of music I had been half inclined at one time to inscribe a few bars of music, if I could find any which seemed suitable to her character, but I knew how much she would have disliked anything singular in connection with her tombstone and did not ...

— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler

... weel, come woe, I was still simple Nicol Middlemiss. Ne'er hae I been able to get the better o' my easy disposition. It has made me acquainted wi' misery—it has kept me constantly in the company o' poverty; and, when I'm dead, if onybody erect a gravestane for me, they may inscribe ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton

... have indited my notes day by day. Henceforward it is imperative that I should inscribe them hour by hour, minute by minute. Who knows but what Thomas Roch's last secret may be revealed to me and that I shall have time to commit it to paper! Should I die during the attack God grant that the account of the five months ...

— Facing the Flag • Jules Verne

... Lilith was feared by divers nations. When children died of diseases not properly understood, their deaths were attributed to Lilith, who was supposed to carry out her wicked purposes as an aerial spectre. Newly married pairs were accustomed to inscribe the names of angels on the inside partitions of their houses, and the names of Adam and Eve and the words "Begone, Lilith," on the outside walls. The name Lilith was given to women suspected of holding ...

— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant

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