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inscribed, ppl. a.|ɪnˈskraɪbd|
[f. prec.]
1. Written upon or in something. Also fig.
1611Cotgr., Inscript, inscribed, intituled, written on. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. iii. 318 Besides this Moral inscribed Law, God Almighty..gave him a positive Law. 1847W. C. Burns in Life xii. (1870) 318, I gave him two religious books with an inscribed promise to pray for him.
b. Of a state (or other) loan: Issued not in the form of bonds passing from hand to hand, but as shares of which the names of the holders are registered or entered in a list kept at the head office of the issuing state or company.
1882Bithell Counting-ho. Dict., Inscribed Stocks, see Registered Stocks. [Ibid., Registered Stocks are so called because they are entered with the name of the holder in a Register kept for that purpose at the chief office of the Company or State issuing them.]
2. Marked with writing or other characters. In Entom. Having markings resembling letters.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlvi. IV. 286 Inscribed,..When the [wing] surface is marked with the resemblance of a letter of any language. Ex. Noctua Gamma. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. ii. 209 Inscribed Stones, more or less rudely graven. 1879Lubbock Addr. Pol. & Educ. ix. 173 The Catstane, an inscribed pillar.
3. Geom. (See inscribe 3.)
1571Digges Pantom., Geom. Solids V iij b, The square of an equilater triangles syde to the inscribed circles semidimetientes square is as 12 to 1. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Inscribed Figures, those that are drawn within others [etc.]. 1806Hutton Course Math. I. 369 To determine a Triangle, and the Radius of the Inscribed Circle. 1885C. Leudesdorf Cremona's Proj. Geom. 125 Six points on a conic, taken in any order, may be regarded as the vertices of an inscribed hexagon. |