inscribedadj.
/ɪnˈskrʌɪbd/ 1.
a. Written upon or in something. Also figurative.
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society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] > inscribed (of writing)
inwrittena1382
inscript1432
inscribed1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Inscript, inscribed, intituled, written on.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. iii. 318 Besides this Moral inscribed Law, God Almighty..gave him a positive Law.
1847 W. C. Burns in Life (1870) xii. 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.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities > type of share
inscribed1882
non-voting1883
no-load1959
light1981
1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. Inscribed Stocks, see Registered Stocks.
1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. 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 Entomology. Having markings resembling letters.
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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > bearing inscription
inwrittena1382
storied1481
lettered1593
charactered1598
mottoed1738
inscriptional1777
inscribed1826
legended1847
inscriptured1881
inscriptioned1888
inscripted1923
sloganed1966
society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > bearing inscription > resembling letters or characters
inscribed1826
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of marking or colouring > having markings resembling letters
inscribed1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 286 Inscribed,..When the [wing] surface is marked with the resemblance of a letter of any language. Ex. Noctua Gamma.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. 6 Galleries filled with the inscribed sarcophagi and obelisks.
1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. ix. 173 The Catstane, an inscribed pillar.
3. Geometry. (See inscribe v. 3.)
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > being acted upon > drawn
circumscribed1571
circumscribing1571
inscribed1571
adscribed1625
describing1696
inscriptible1705
inscribable1846
circumscribable1878
1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria v. sig. V iij v The square of an equilater triangles syde to the inscribed circles semidimetientes square is as 12 to 1.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Inscribed Figures, those that are drawn within others [etc.].
1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 369 To determine a Triangle, and the Radius of the Inscribed Circle.
1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 125 Six points on a conic, taken in any order, may be regarded as the vertices of an inscribed hexagon.
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