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/ɪnskrˈɪpʃən/ Listen

noun

Inscription n.

The act or process of inscribing.

That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

(Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.

An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of the Cherokee Nation voted a large silver medal to George Gist as a mark of distinction for his discovery. On one side were two pipes, the ancient symbol of Indian religion and law; on the other a man's head. The medal had the following inscription in English, also in, Cherokee in his ...

— Se-Quo-Yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V. 41, 1870 • Unknown

... Thus when a famous Roman courtesan departed this life in the year 1511, at the early age of twenty-six, she was accorded a splendid funeral and an imposing tomb in the Chapel Santa Gregoria with a tablet bearing the following inscription: ...

— The Life of Cesare Borgia • Raphael Sabatini

... her watch, which had been graduation present from her mother and which said, inside the case: "To my little girl!" There is no question but that, when the Nurse's mother gave that inscription to the jeweller, she was thinking of the day when the Staff Doctor had brought the Nurse in his leather bag, and had slapped her between the shoulders to make her breathe. "To my little girl!" said the watch; and across from ...

— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... but less restfully than on his own native mats. This chief was the man who saved so many lives at the time of the great hurricane, when the men-of-war were lost, that the United States Government sent him, in appreciation, a fine whale boat and a gold watch with an inscription in the case. As he had no pockets in his native costume, he wore a leather belt with a pouch in it for the watch, usually wearing it next to ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... departure was fixed for the following morning. As he was packing his papers together late at night, he happened to lay his hand upon a little sealed packet which Freiherr Hubert von R—— had given him, bearing the inscription, "To be read after my will has been opened," and which by some unaccountable means had hitherto escaped his notice. He was on the point of breaking the seal when the door opened and Daniel came in with still, ghostlike step. Placing upon ...

— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann

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