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INSCRIBED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut or impressed into a surface
Example:
engraved invitations
Synonyms:
engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed
Classified under:
Similar:
carved; carven (made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface
Classified under:
Similar:
written (set down in writing in any of various ways)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb inscribe
Context examples:
Some future traveller, visiting, from motives of curiosity, not unmingled, let us hope, with sympathy, the place of confinement allotted to debtors in this city, may, and I trust will, Ponder, as he traces on its wall, inscribed with a rusty nail,
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
