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Inscription   /ɪnskrˈɪpʃən/   Listen
Inscription

noun
1.
Letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something.  Synonym: lettering.
2.
A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something.  Synonym: dedication.
3.
The activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words.





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"Inscription" Quotes from Famous Books



... order at the florist's, and the bill would come in presently, after the wedding, and be paid in American dollars. There were boxes of sweets too; and a volume of Romola, bound in white and gold, lay on the table. Edna had been looking at the inscription on the fly-leaf when Olive came in. "Carissima" he had written, and she had believed him, but that was half an hour ago. Now her small body was shaken with sobs, her face was stained with tears because that faith she had had ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... onless in the smoke; says Billy, an' throws a gun on him. 'Pause where you be, my proud Castilian, an' I'll flood your darkened ignorance with light by nacherally readin' this yere inscription to ...
— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis
... three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; similar to the flag of Syria which has two green stars and of Iraq which has three green stars (plus an Arabic inscription) in a horizontal line centered in the white band; also similar to the flag of Egypt which has a symbolic eagle ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... names are not rare' [294:6]. An example of the suppression in this very name Sergius Paulus will be given presently, thus justifying the identification of the proconsul of the Acts with the proconsul of this inscription. ...
— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot
... action and words, an officer examined the bracelet closely; and, making out the inscription on the clasp, had my squire and myself taken to the house where your father lodged, so that the manner of my being possessed of the trinket might be explained. On your father's return he recognized it; and, ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty


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