inscriptionn.

Brit.

/ɪnˈskrɪpʃn/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/

Etymology: < Latin inscriptiōn-em, noun of action from inscrībĕre to inscribe v. Compare French inscription (Rabelais, 16th cent., in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).

1. The action of inscribing; the action of writing upon or in something. (In quots. figurative) rare.

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society > communication > writing > [noun] > inscribing

inscriptiona1652

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1821) ix. i. 410 These we may call the truths of natural inscription.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 45 The Law of first Inscription.

2. concrete. That which is inscribed; a piece of writing or lettering upon something; a set of characters or words written, engraved, or otherwise traced upon a surface; esp. a legend, description, or record traced upon some hard substance for the sake of durability, as on a monument, building, stone, tablet, medal, coin, vase, etc.

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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun]

onwritingOE

writinga1382

inwritingc1384

writa1400

scripturec1400

scriptiona1425

style?a1527

inscriptiona1552

epigram1552

inscriptor1603

inscript1611

epigraph1624

scribings1870

wording1908

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 80 Inscription could I none find yn these Stones.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 14 I will suruay th'inscriptions, back againe, What saies this leaden casket?

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 495 I obtained the gift of his Arundelian Marbles, Those celebrated & famous Inscriptions Greeke and Latine.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 28/2 Queen Elizabeths shilling had..this Inscription, Posui Deum Adjutorem meum.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 400 A brazen Column..was erected..there is no Sign of its having ever had any Inscription.

1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari ii. i, in Sardanapalus 217 'Tis perhaps as true as most Inscriptions upon tombs.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 53/1 It bears on one side the head of Ferdinand with the inscription Ferdinandvs [etc.].

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 833/1 The words around the border of the coin form what is termed the legend, those in the middle the inscription. [ B. V. Head in Let., Numismatists make no distinction between ‘Inscription’ and ‘Legend’.]

figurative.1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4^v Nor is this yet the highest inscription that will adorne so religious and so holy a defence as this.1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 19 Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread.

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a. A short piece of writing placed at the beginning of a book or other composition, descriptive of its nature, contents, authorship, etc.; a title, heading, superscription. (Now rare or Obsolete as distinct from 2.)

b. A brief dedication of a book or work of art to a person (see inscribe v. 2b); the superscription of a letter.

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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > matter preceding text > dedication

inscriptiona1400

presentment1583

dedication1598

dedicatory1598

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > brief dedication

inscriptiona1400

society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > address

superscription1464

direction1586

superscript1598

address1622

inscription1741

home address1847

post-office address1849

a1400 Wyclif's Bible Gen. Prol. 39 (Trin. Coll. Dublin A. 1. 10) The firste psalme to no man is asigned, for..what other man is vndirstonden in the firste but the firste geten, that inscripcioun worthili schuld not be necessarie.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 174/2 Many bokes be ther that haue false inscripcions, and ar not the bokes of them that they be named by.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Indice,..also the inscription or title of a booke.

1649 tr. Alcoran p. vi Mahomet..divided it into many Chapters, to which he gave what inscription he thought good: he most commonly intituleth them with words that are in their first line.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxiii. 451 And now-and-then a Letter passes on both Sides, by the Inscription and Subscription of which, they remind one another, that they have been once in their Lives at one Church together.

c. In early Music, A motto or sign, or combination of both, placed at the beginning of an enigmatical canon, to indicate (often itself enigmatically) the manner of its resolution.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > specific signs in medieval music

plica1782

inscription1880

1880 W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) In the second Agnus Dei of his ‘Missa L'Ami baudichon’, [Josquin des Prés] intimates that the Tenor is to be silent, by the pretty Inscription, ‘Agnus secundum non est cum grege.’..Some of Hobrecht's Inscriptions are very obscure..‘Decimas reddo omnia quæ possideo’ shews that the (unwritten) Bass must sing a Tenth below the Discant.

4. Anatomy. A marking upon some organ or part produced by another in contact with it; esp. a marking on the fleshy part of a muscle where a tendon crosses it.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [noun] > mark made by another part

inscription1578

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 61^v The fift [muscle]..marcheth obliquely towardes the thombe, with many inscriptions, and ceaseth at diuers Tendons.

c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. vi. 91 Having only Inscriptions answerable to the winding Convolutions of the Brain.

1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 7 Its fibres are partially interrupted by a tendinous inscription, and it is joined beyond that point by a portion of the muscle arising from the ischium in which there is no tendinous inscription.

5. Geometry. The action of inscribing one figure in another: see inscribe v. 3.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > action or process > moving or drawing figure

application1570

inscription1570

superposition1656

supraposition1712

1570 H. Billingsley in tr. Euclid Elements Geom. iv. Introd. f. 110 This fovrth booke intreateth of the inscription..of rectiline figures.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 17 Ramus attributes to Thales..the second, third,..propositions of the fourth book of Euclid, which are concerning the adscription of a triangle and a circle,..to include both inscription, and circumscription.

1842 A. De Morgan Differential & Integral Calculus 303 It is the condition of a polygon's inscription in a circle that its successive angles should be [etc.].

†6. Civil Law and Scots Law. An accusation or challenge at law made under the condition that if it were false, the accuser would undergo the same punishment that would have been inflicted on the accused if found guilty. Obsolete.Sometimes inscription appears to refer to the accusation (see Inscriptio in Du Cange), sometimes to the undertaking of the accuser: cf. Cotgrave Fr. Dict., ‘Inscription en faux, a challenge of, or exception against the truth of an Euidence; a testimonie or vndertaking to prove it false, entred in Court’.

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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > a charge, accusation, or allegation > charge made under penalty

appeal1377

inscription1479

1479 Acta Audit. 93 (Jam.) The said James has drawin himself, landis, and gudis, souerte to the kingis hienes for the said inscriptioune.

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 452 Inscriptions were only necessar, to the end the pursuer might be punished, if he were found guilty of Calumny.

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 452 Which inscription was only necessar in attrocius, but not in lighter crimes.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 24 Inscription is an obligation made in writing whereby the Accuser binds himself to undergo the same Punishment, if he shall not prove the Crime which he objects to the Party accused..as the Defendant himself ought to suffer, if the same be prov'd.

7. Commerce. The action of inscribing stock; in plural inscribed stocks: see inscribed adj. 1b.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > types of

joint stock1615

fancya1652

water stock1675

Bank stock1694

India stock1702

government stock1734

inscription1800

gas stock1820

railway stock1836

common stock1852

floater1871

blue chip1874

trunks1892

traction1896

omnium1902

mummy1903

motors1908

rollover1947

blue-chipper1953

red chip1968

large-cap1982

small cap1984

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > share-issuing activities

scrip issue1841

public offer1854

bonus issue1868

inscription1884

public offering1889

capitalization issue1902

introduction1929

follow-on1985

1800 Ann. Reg. 1797 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 85/2 Penury and misery burst forth. The inscriptions, which were at forty, fell to ten; the armies were left without pay.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 55 The second description of Russian Stock is called 6 per Cent. Inscriptions.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. 5/1 The Bank of England..in its desire to move with the times..has been undertaking the inscription of a number of colonial loans.

8. inscription maritime [French.] , the French naval system of recruiting; a list of men who may be called to serve in the French navy.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > system of recruitment

inscription maritime1902

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > list of officers or sailors

muster-book1702

Navy Lista1770

prize list1782

reserved list1826

flag-list1873

inscription maritime1902

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 499/1 This arrangement is purely for the embodiment of the men of the Inscription Maritime.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 103/1 For the purpose of the Inscription Maritime the Newfoundland fisheries were kept up at considerable expense to the nations.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 3 Aug. 10/1 A system called ‘maritime inscription’, which..furnishes a contingent of about 4,700 naval recruits every year.

Compounds

In combinations.

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1859 H. L. Smith in Archaeologia Cantiana 2 108 Only the labels..and inscription-plate remain.

1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 320 Dismissed by the inscription-writer, with nine stanzas of vague encomium.

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Medicine. A part of a prescription: †(a) a set of letters or characters representing a religious or superstitious invocation, placed at the head of the prescription (obsolete rare); (b) the part of a prescription for a compounded formula which specifies the individual ingredients and their quantities (now rare).

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1741 tr. H. D. Gaubius Compl. Extemporaneous Dispensatory 14 An arbitrary and superstitious inscription,..consisting in some particular characters or letters intimating the pious wish and inclination of the prescriber, as, †. C. C. J D. J J. α & ω*; which may be, and are, generally omitted without neglecting any thing serviceable to the patient.

1856 E. Parrish Introd. Pract. Pharmacy v. ii. 418 The prescription may be divided, for the purpose of study, into the following parts..: 1. The superscription. 2. The inscription. 3. The subscription. 4. The signature.

1903 Amer. Druggist & Pharmaceut. Rec. 43 276/1 The inscription part consists of the galenicals or chemicals whereof the preparation is made up, and is subdivided into four sections, viz. (a) the basis, (b) the adjuvant, (c) the corrective, and (d) the vehicle.

2001 G. Askew & M. Smith-Stoner Assisting in Pharmacy v. 3 Occasionally a prescription will be written for a compounded formula. In that case, the inscription contains the names of the ingredients and their quantities.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	inscription
释义	inscriptionn. Brit. /ɪnˈskrɪpʃn/, U.S. /ᵻnˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ Etymology: < Latin inscriptiōn-em, noun of action from inscrībĕre to inscribe v. Compare French inscription (Rabelais, 16th cent., in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter). 1. The action of inscribing; the action of writing upon or in something. (In quots. figurative) rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [noun] > inscribing inscriptiona1652 a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1821) ix. i. 410 These we may call the truths of natural inscription. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 45 The Law of first Inscription. 2. concrete. That which is inscribed; a piece of writing or lettering upon something; a set of characters or words written, engraved, or otherwise traced upon a surface; esp. a legend, description, or record traced upon some hard substance for the sake of durability, as on a monument, building, stone, tablet, medal, coin, vase, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] onwritingOE writinga1382 inwritingc1384 writa1400 scripturec1400 scriptiona1425 style?a1527 inscriptiona1552 epigram1552 inscriptor1603 inscript1611 epigraph1624 scribings1870 wording1908 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 80 Inscription could I none find yn these Stones. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 14 I will suruay th'inscriptions, back againe, What saies this leaden casket? View more context for this quotation a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 495 I obtained the gift of his Arundelian Marbles, Those celebrated & famous Inscriptions Greeke and Latine. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 28/2 Queen Elizabeths shilling had..this Inscription, Posui Deum Adjutorem meum. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 400 A brazen Column..was erected..there is no Sign of its having ever had any Inscription. 1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari ii. i, in Sardanapalus 217 'Tis perhaps as true as most Inscriptions upon tombs. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 53/1 It bears on one side the head of Ferdinand with the inscription Ferdinandvs [etc.]. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 833/1 The words around the border of the coin form what is termed the legend, those in the middle the inscription. [ B. V. Head in Let., Numismatists make no distinction between ‘Inscription’ and ‘Legend’.] figurative.1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4^v Nor is this yet the highest inscription that will adorne so religious and so holy a defence as this.1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 19 Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread. 3. spec. Thesaurus » Categories » a. A short piece of writing placed at the beginning of a book or other composition, descriptive of its nature, contents, authorship, etc.; a title, heading, superscription. (Now rare or Obsolete as distinct from 2.) b. A brief dedication of a book or work of art to a person (see inscribe v. 2b); the superscription of a letter. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > matter preceding text > dedication inscriptiona1400 presentment1583 dedication1598 dedicatory1598 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > brief dedication inscriptiona1400 society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > address superscription1464 direction1586 superscript1598 address1622 inscription1741 home address1847 post-office address1849 a1400 Wyclif's Bible Gen. Prol. 39 (Trin. Coll. Dublin A. 1. 10) The firste psalme to no man is asigned, for..what other man is vndirstonden in the firste but the firste geten, that inscripcioun worthili schuld not be necessarie. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 174/2 Many bokes be ther that haue false inscripcions, and ar not the bokes of them that they be named by. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Indice,..also the inscription or title of a booke. 1649 tr. Alcoran p. vi Mahomet..divided it into many Chapters, to which he gave what inscription he thought good: he most commonly intituleth them with words that are in their first line. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxiii. 451 And now-and-then a Letter passes on both Sides, by the Inscription and Subscription of which, they remind one another, that they have been once in their Lives at one Church together. c. In early Music, A motto or sign, or combination of both, placed at the beginning of an enigmatical canon, to indicate (often itself enigmatically) the manner of its resolution. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > specific signs in medieval music plica1782 inscription1880 1880 W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) In the second Agnus Dei of his ‘Missa L'Ami baudichon’, [Josquin des Prés] intimates that the Tenor is to be silent, by the pretty Inscription, ‘Agnus secundum non est cum grege.’..Some of Hobrecht's Inscriptions are very obscure..‘Decimas reddo omnia quæ possideo’ shews that the (unwritten) Bass must sing a Tenth below the Discant. 4. Anatomy. A marking upon some organ or part produced by another in contact with it; esp. a marking on the fleshy part of a muscle where a tendon crosses it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [noun] > mark made by another part inscription1578 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 61^v The fift [muscle]..marcheth obliquely towardes the thombe, with many inscriptions, and ceaseth at diuers Tendons. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. vi. 91 Having only Inscriptions answerable to the winding Convolutions of the Brain. 1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 7 Its fibres are partially interrupted by a tendinous inscription, and it is joined beyond that point by a portion of the muscle arising from the ischium in which there is no tendinous inscription. 5. Geometry. The action of inscribing one figure in another: see inscribe v. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > action or process > moving or drawing figure application1570 inscription1570 superposition1656 supraposition1712 1570 H. Billingsley in tr. Euclid Elements Geom. iv. Introd. f. 110 This fovrth booke intreateth of the inscription..of rectiline figures. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 17 Ramus attributes to Thales..the second, third,..propositions of the fourth book of Euclid, which are concerning the adscription of a triangle and a circle,..to include both inscription, and circumscription. 1842 A. De Morgan Differential & Integral Calculus 303 It is the condition of a polygon's inscription in a circle that its successive angles should be [etc.]. †6. Civil Law and Scots Law. An accusation or challenge at law made under the condition that if it were false, the accuser would undergo the same punishment that would have been inflicted on the accused if found guilty. Obsolete.Sometimes inscription appears to refer to the accusation (see Inscriptio in Du Cange), sometimes to the undertaking of the accuser: cf. Cotgrave Fr. Dict., ‘Inscription en faux, a challenge of, or exception against the truth of an Euidence; a testimonie or vndertaking to prove it false, entred in Court’. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > a charge, accusation, or allegation > charge made under penalty appeal1377 inscription1479 1479 Acta Audit. 93 (Jam.) The said James has drawin himself, landis, and gudis, souerte to the kingis hienes for the said inscriptioune. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 452 Inscriptions were only necessar, to the end the pursuer might be punished, if he were found guilty of Calumny. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 452 Which inscription was only necessar in attrocius, but not in lighter crimes. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 24 Inscription is an obligation made in writing whereby the Accuser binds himself to undergo the same Punishment, if he shall not prove the Crime which he objects to the Party accused..as the Defendant himself ought to suffer, if the same be prov'd. 7. Commerce. The action of inscribing stock; in plural inscribed stocks: see inscribed adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > types of joint stock1615 fancya1652 water stock1675 Bank stock1694 India stock1702 government stock1734 inscription1800 gas stock1820 railway stock1836 common stock1852 floater1871 blue chip1874 trunks1892 traction1896 omnium1902 mummy1903 motors1908 rollover1947 blue-chipper1953 red chip1968 large-cap1982 small cap1984 society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > share-issuing activities scrip issue1841 public offer1854 bonus issue1868 inscription1884 public offering1889 capitalization issue1902 introduction1929 follow-on1985 1800 Ann. Reg. 1797 (Otridge ed.) Hist. Europe 85/2 Penury and misery burst forth. The inscriptions, which were at forty, fell to ten; the armies were left without pay. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 55 The second description of Russian Stock is called 6 per Cent. Inscriptions. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. 5/1 The Bank of England..in its desire to move with the times..has been undertaking the inscription of a number of colonial loans. 8. inscription maritime [French.] , the French naval system of recruiting; a list of men who may be called to serve in the French navy. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > system of recruitment inscription maritime1902 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > list of officers or sailors muster-book1702 Navy Lista1770 prize list1782 reserved list1826 flag-list1873 inscription maritime1902 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 499/1 This arrangement is purely for the embodiment of the men of the Inscription Maritime. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 103/1 For the purpose of the Inscription Maritime the Newfoundland fisheries were kept up at considerable expense to the nations. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 3 Aug. 10/1 A system called ‘maritime inscription’, which..furnishes a contingent of about 4,700 naval recruits every year. Compounds In combinations. ΚΠ 1859 H. L. Smith in Archaeologia Cantiana 2 108 Only the labels..and inscription-plate remain. 1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 320 Dismissed by the inscription-writer, with nine stanzas of vague encomium. Draft additions June 2012 Medicine. A part of a prescription: †(a) a set of letters or characters representing a religious or superstitious invocation, placed at the head of the prescription (obsolete rare); (b) the part of a prescription for a compounded formula which specifies the individual ingredients and their quantities (now rare). ΚΠ 1741 tr. H. D. Gaubius Compl. Extemporaneous Dispensatory 14 An arbitrary and superstitious inscription,..consisting in some particular characters or letters intimating the pious wish and inclination of the prescriber, as, †. C. C. J D. J J. α & ω; which may be, and are, generally omitted without neglecting any thing serviceable to the patient. 1856 E. Parrish Introd. Pract. Pharmacy* v. ii. 418 The prescription may be divided, for the purpose of study, into the following parts..: 1. The superscription. 2. The inscription. 3. The subscription. 4. The signature. 1903 Amer. Druggist & Pharmaceut. Rec. 43 276/1 The inscription part consists of the galenicals or chemicals whereof the preparation is made up, and is subdivided into four sections, viz. (a) the basis, (b) the adjuvant, (c) the corrective, and (d) the vehicle. 2001 G. Askew & M. Smith-Stoner Assisting in Pharmacy v. 3 Occasionally a prescription will be written for a compounded formula. In that case, the inscription contains the names of the ingredients and their quantities. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400
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