superscriptionn.

Brit.

/ˌsuːpəˈskrɪpʃn/,

/ˌsjuːpəˈskrɪpʃn/, U.S.

/ˌsupərˈskrɪpʃən/

Forms: Middle English superscripcione, Middle English superscripcioun, Middle English superscrypcion, Middle English–1500s superscripcion, Middle English– superscription, 1500s superscriptioun, 1500s superscrypcyon, 1600s supperscription; Scottish pre-1700 superscripcione, pre-1700 superscripcioun, pre-1700 superscriptioun, pre-1700 1700s– superscription, 1800s supperscription.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French superscription; Latin superscription-, superscriptio.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French superscription, superscripcion heading of a document (1339), address of a letter (1371), piece of text written above (e.g. an image) (a1389), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin superscription-, superscriptio piece of text written or inscribed on or above (Vetus Latina, Vulgate: see note), heading (4th cent.), (of a letter) address, direction (late 8th cent.) < classical Latin superscrīpt- , past participial stem of superscrībere superscribe v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare (in a similar range of meanings) Middle French supscription (15th cent.; French suscription).In the Vulgate, post-classical Latin superscriptio is sometimes used to translate ancient Greek ἐπιγραφή inscription, piece of writing on a coin or similar (see epigraph n.).

1. A piece of text written or printed at the head or beginning of a document; a heading.In quot. a1382 a name and approaching sense 4, as also quot. c1475.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > heading

superscriptiona1382

head1560

chief1605

supertitle1818

heading1849

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms Prol. 738 Alle the salmys of Dauid..of whiche alle..nyne made Dauid himself, two and thretti han not superscripcioun.

c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 67 Item, That every purveyour bring..his lettres of commission, with the seale, there to be seene and new assigned with a newe superscription by the Thesaurer of houshold under hys seale.

1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 §6 Wherunto the same printers shalbe bounde to put the superscripcion and subscripcion in this forme, That is to saie: by the King and his Clergye, with addicion in the ende of the printers name..and yere of the printing of the same.

1581 W. Fowler Wks. (1936) II. 20 The iniurious superscription quhairof [sc. a treatise]..gaue me not samekil the occasioun of lauchter..then the contents thairof ministred vnto me the mater of meruel.

1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 16 We have a booke, answered he; which he shewed me, and it was one in folio, whose superscription was, A memorandum of disbursements.

1682 J. Locke Let. 16 Feb. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 83 I find in your letter another inclosed to me which by the superscription I judge to come from Thanet house.

1706 J. Hussey Glory Christ Unveil'd 2 The Excellency of his Person..doth far more agree with that amiable Description, I am the Rose of Sharon; than it doth with the Superscription and Title of this Book, The Saint's Treasury.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ xv The superscription proves that Timothy was already with St. Paul when he wrote to the Corinthians from Macedonia.

1851 Accts. & Papers XXIX. 155 He has printed..the Latin text of the brief to the clergy of the diocese, with this superscription: ‘Confirmation bull for the Archbishop of Freiburg’.

1891 Old & New Test. Student 13 35 The truth of the superscription that makes Solomon the author of this psalm, is confirmed by the many figures in it drawn from nature..and by its proverb-like movement.

1957 I. Watt Rise of Novel i. 24 The superscription of each letter gives us the day of the week, and often the time of the day.

2008 J. P. Decter in M. Hammond & D. Sajdi Transforming Loss into Beauty i. vi. 137 The Arabic superscription of the poem reads wa-lahu ila abi al-Hasan Ibn Matar 'inda 'ibtina'ihi fa-qala.

a. A piece of text written, printed, or inscribed on or above something.

ΘΚΠ

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

titleOE

superscriptiona1425

epigraph1633

titulus1844

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Luke xxiii. 38 And the superscripcioun [c1384 E.V. wrytinge aboue; L. superscriptio, Gk. ἐπιγραφὴ] was writun ouer hym with Greke lettris, and of Latyn, and of Ebreu, This is the kyng of Jewis.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 151 (MED) The superscripcioun aboute his lityll seel is this: Dei fortitudo omnium hominum Imperatoris sigillum.

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 2089 Ther chylder them byryd in a tumbe off marbyl gray, Platyd with ymagys off gold; and superscrypcionys thei haue Into this day, as he that red them sqwore.

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 604 in Poems (1981) 131 Sum said he maid ane tomb of merbell gray, And wrait hir name and superscriptioun.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) John xix. 19 Pilate wrote a superscripcion, and set vpon the crosse.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 292 In the Church of this Castle are interred the bodies of M. Luther, and P. Melancthon, under two faire Marble stones, with superscriptions of copper upon them.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo ii, in Wks. (1721) III. 55 John shew'd on each the Superscription grav'd, Which Solomon experienc'd,..Vanity and Vexation there he read.

1791 Politico-theol. Serm. 33 We are happy..that the image and superscription upon our coin is that of a lawful Cæsar.

1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. 6 The button-like shillings, of which the image and superscription might have been Cæsar's.

1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 16 I see lying on the table before me a number of shillings of the same coinage. Examined severally, the image and superscription of each is undistinguishable from that of its fellow.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 274 SWAK, from the initials S.W.A.K.—i.e., Sealed with a Kiss. A common superscription on the envelopes of letters to sweethearts from sailors and soldiers.

1954 J. Vriend tr. G. C. Berkouwer Person of Christ ix. 234 The motives of Pilate in uttering his Ecce homo and in composing the superscription above the cross cannot prevent the disclosure of the great secret that this man belongs to the whole world.

2000 Building Design 18 Feb. 23/1 Unfashionably, she disliked Bluewater..with its prescient superscription ‘out of the spent and unconsidered earth, the cities rise again’, and its no-smoking French bistros.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts, originally and chiefly religious.

ΚΠ

1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection ii. 245 You..thought it expedient..to set the image and superscription of God and his Church vpon your corruptible and earthly Mammon, and by that cunning to keepe it from Caesar.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (iii. 7) 677 God forbid that I should for this or that sinfull pleasure,..or whatsoeuer coyne hauing Satans superscription vpon it, sell mine inheritance.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 21 Finding him thus in disguise without his superscription or Phylactery either of holy or Prelat.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 190 I learn..How counterfeit a coin they are who friends Bear in their Superscription .

1707 M. Henry Expos. Five Bks. Moses Pref. sig. A2^v If we look wistly, we shall soon be aware of Gods Image and Superscription upon it [sc. scripture].

1782 A. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 409 Your daughter, your image, your superscription, desires to be affectionately remembered to you.

1824 R. Hall Addr. State of Slavery in Wks. (1832) II. 316 They really believe they have a prescriptive right to be guilty of injustice, to trample on the image of their Maker, to erase his superscription.

1895 J. M. Falkner Lost Stradivarius xii. 190 That I should read, as I believed, on his young face the unmistakable image and superscription of death.

1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 11 And who has seen the moon, who has not..seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss.

1929 E. Wylie in Sel. Wks. (2005) v. 95 Our elements are the farthest skies apart; And I enjoin you, ere it is too late, To stamp your superscription on my heart.

1986 O. Chambers Devotions for Deeper Life 109 You must have goodness stamped upon your life by the superscription of Jesus Christ.

c. Medicine. A part of a medical prescription: †(a) = signature n. 8 (obsolete); (b) the part containing the symbol ℞ (see R n. 15b, and recipe v.); the symbol itself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > prescription or recipe > part of prescription

subscription1741

superscription1741

signature1856

1741 tr. H. D. Gaubius Compl. Extemporaneous Dispensatory 22 The (VI.) last general part of a prescription or formula, is the superscription, of the medicine direction to the patient.

1884 Parrish's Treat. Pharmacy (ed. 5) 959 The Superscription consists of a very short abbreviation of the Latin verb Recipe, imperative mood of Recipio, I take, viz.: the letter ℞, which is often printed near the top of the prescription sheet.

1915 Jrnl. Amer. Pharm. Assoc. 4 619 We have the ‘Superscription or heading.’

2002 W. N. Kelly Pharmacy 65 The writing of the inscription, subscription, and signatura is filled with specific terminology, and often uses Latin terms and abbreviations.

3. The name of the addressee, the address, or the full direction on a letter, etc.

ΘΚΠ

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

superscription1464

written-to1747

addressee1794

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

superscription1464

direction1586

superscript1598

address1622

inscription1741

home address1847

post-office address1849

1464 Sir J. Fortescue Let. 13 Dec. in Wks. (1869) I. 25 My lord, by cause we knew not verrely the kynge of Portingale is name, the quene is lettre hathe no superscripcione, nor the lettre fro my lord Prince; but ye moure [sic] knowe ham also welle by the seales..And I sende to you hereyn soche wordes of superscripcion as ye shalle sette uppone bothe lettres.

1518 H. Watson tr. Hystorye Olyuer of Castylle (Roxb.) E 1 He apperceyued the lettre, and he sawe euydently that the super scrypcyon was of his felowes hande wrytynge.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. C3^v The directions, which on the outside of euery Letter..are for the moste part infixed, and commonly are termed by the name of Superscriptions.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 53 No more but plaine and bluntly? (To the King.) Hath he forgot he is his Soueraigne? Or doth this churlish Superscription Pretend some alteration in good will?

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman i. 15 Scarce will he open a note..if Don be not in the superscription.

1738 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 513 I was extremely pleased to receive your handwriting in the Superscription of a Letter.

1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 369 When her eye glanced on the superscription, hardly could her trembling fingers break the seal.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. xii. 321 Eagerly breaking open a letter, which, from the superscription, you conclude to be from a dear..friend.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story ii When the family beheld the name of Lord Viscount Cinqbars upon the superscription, their respect for their lodger was greater than ever it had been.

1899 A. K. Green Agatha Webb 270 Sweetwater..had stolen a glimpse at the superscription on the letter he held... It was directed..to a Frederick.

1946 A. Bryant Postman's Horn (rev. ed.) Introd. 7 The recipient would scan the superscription—‘These for my loving wife, Madame Wynnington, at the Birches in Cheshire. Warrington bag’—then break the crested seal at the back and unfold the sheet.

1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command iii. 77 Among them was a paper bearing the superscription Lieutenant Johnson, R.N., Boadicea.

2009 M. Belcher Coll. Lett. A. W. N. Pugin III. 95 The writing is so abraded that only the surname is unambiguously legible but the superscription may once have been ‘C. Stanfield Esq^r’. Presumably the letter was delivered by hand.

4. A name signed on something; a signature. Now rare.See note at sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > signature

hand1534

signature1579

superscriptionc1681

c1681 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1904) II. 397 To each clerk that took the poll, being foure, a guinea, to the men that got superscriptions for them, the like.

1820 F. Thurtle Hist. Spain v. v. 471 Signed with the usual superscription of the monarchs of Spain, ‘I—The King.’

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin lxv. 606 ‘Is that in your handwriting, Sir?’.. ‘Yes, every word of it, except the superscription of the witnesses.’

1921 Literary Digest 24 Dec. 4/1 These isolated bits, some of them signed with the unfamiliar superscription, ‘Walter Whitman.’

5. The action of superscribing something.

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Superscription, the act of superscribing.

1785 G. Read Let. in W. T. Read Life & Corr. George Read (1870) 397 In your superscription of letters you are not to put Mr. and Esqr. at the same time,—one of them only is proper.

1837 C. Elliot Let. in Papers Establishment Court of Judicature China 245 The first point for consideration was a new mode of superscription.

1890 R. T. Jeffrey Salvation of Gospel 78 This singularity in the style of superscription has been thought intended to mark some exceptional significance.

1986 R. Young in S. Weber Demarcating Disciplines v. 125 The return of history becomes the process of superscription itself, a reinscription of the writing of the accident.

2009 N. Gonis in R. S. Bagnall Oxf. Handbk. Papyrology 174 Oblique strokes and sinusoids were often used in conjunction with superscription.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	superscription
释义	superscriptionn. Brit. /ˌsuːpəˈskrɪpʃn/, /ˌsjuːpəˈskrɪpʃn/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈskrɪpʃən/ Forms: Middle English superscripcione, Middle English superscripcioun, Middle English superscrypcion, Middle English–1500s superscripcion, Middle English– superscription, 1500s superscriptioun, 1500s superscrypcyon, 1600s supperscription; Scottish pre-1700 superscripcione, pre-1700 superscripcioun, pre-1700 superscriptioun, pre-1700 1700s– superscription, 1800s supperscription. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French superscription; Latin superscription-, superscriptio. Etymology: < (i) Middle French superscription, superscripcion heading of a document (1339), address of a letter (1371), piece of text written above (e.g. an image) (a1389), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin superscription-, superscriptio piece of text written or inscribed on or above (Vetus Latina, Vulgate: see note), heading (4th cent.), (of a letter) address, direction (late 8th cent.) < classical Latin superscrīpt- , past participial stem of superscrībere superscribe v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare (in a similar range of meanings) Middle French supscription (15th cent.; French suscription).In the Vulgate, post-classical Latin superscriptio is sometimes used to translate ancient Greek ἐπιγραφή inscription, piece of writing on a coin or similar (see epigraph n.). 1. A piece of text written or printed at the head or beginning of a document; a heading.In quot. a1382 a name and approaching sense 4, as also quot. c1475. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > heading superscriptiona1382 head1560 chief1605 supertitle1818 heading1849 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms Prol. 738 Alle the salmys of Dauid..of whiche alle..nyne made Dauid himself, two and thretti han not superscripcioun. c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 67 Item, That every purveyour bring..his lettres of commission, with the seale, there to be seene and new assigned with a newe superscription by the Thesaurer of houshold under hys seale. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 §6 Wherunto the same printers shalbe bounde to put the superscripcion and subscripcion in this forme, That is to saie: by the King and his Clergye, with addicion in the ende of the printers name..and yere of the printing of the same. 1581 W. Fowler Wks. (1936) II. 20 The iniurious superscription quhairof [sc. a treatise]..gaue me not samekil the occasioun of lauchter..then the contents thairof ministred vnto me the mater of meruel. 1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 16 We have a booke, answered he; which he shewed me, and it was one in folio, whose superscription was, A memorandum of disbursements. 1682 J. Locke Let. 16 Feb. in J. Locke & E. Clarke Corr. (1927) 83 I find in your letter another inclosed to me which by the superscription I judge to come from Thanet house. 1706 J. Hussey Glory Christ Unveil'd 2 The Excellency of his Person..doth far more agree with that amiable Description, I am the Rose of Sharon; than it doth with the Superscription and Title of this Book, The Saint's Treasury. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ xv The superscription proves that Timothy was already with St. Paul when he wrote to the Corinthians from Macedonia. 1851 Accts. & Papers XXIX. 155 He has printed..the Latin text of the brief to the clergy of the diocese, with this superscription: ‘Confirmation bull for the Archbishop of Freiburg’. 1891 Old & New Test. Student 13 35 The truth of the superscription that makes Solomon the author of this psalm, is confirmed by the many figures in it drawn from nature..and by its proverb-like movement. 1957 I. Watt Rise of Novel i. 24 The superscription of each letter gives us the day of the week, and often the time of the day. 2008 J. P. Decter in M. Hammond & D. Sajdi Transforming Loss into Beauty i. vi. 137 The Arabic superscription of the poem reads wa-lahu ila abi al-Hasan Ibn Matar 'inda 'ibtina'ihi fa-qala. 2. a. A piece of text written, printed, or inscribed on or above something. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > superscription titleOE superscriptiona1425 epigraph1633 titulus1844 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Luke xxiii. 38 And the superscripcioun [c1384 E.V. wrytinge aboue; L. superscriptio, Gk. ἐπιγραφὴ] was writun ouer hym with Greke lettris, and of Latyn, and of Ebreu, This is the kyng of Jewis. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 151 (MED) The superscripcioun aboute his lityll seel is this: Dei fortitudo omnium hominum Imperatoris sigillum. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 2089 Ther chylder them byryd in a tumbe off marbyl gray, Platyd with ymagys off gold; and superscrypcionys thei haue Into this day, as he that red them sqwore. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 604 in Poems (1981) 131 Sum said he maid ane tomb of merbell gray, And wrait hir name and superscriptioun. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) John xix. 19 Pilate wrote a superscripcion, and set vpon the crosse. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 292 In the Church of this Castle are interred the bodies of M. Luther, and P. Melancthon, under two faire Marble stones, with superscriptions of copper upon them. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo ii, in Wks. (1721) III. 55 John shew'd on each the Superscription grav'd, Which Solomon experienc'd,..Vanity and Vexation there he read. 1791 Politico-theol. Serm. 33 We are happy..that the image and superscription upon our coin is that of a lawful Cæsar. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. 6 The button-like shillings, of which the image and superscription might have been Cæsar's. 1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 16 I see lying on the table before me a number of shillings of the same coinage. Examined severally, the image and superscription of each is undistinguishable from that of its fellow. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 274 SWAK, from the initials S.W.A.K.—i.e., Sealed with a Kiss. A common superscription on the envelopes of letters to sweethearts from sailors and soldiers. 1954 J. Vriend tr. G. C. Berkouwer Person of Christ ix. 234 The motives of Pilate in uttering his Ecce homo and in composing the superscription above the cross cannot prevent the disclosure of the great secret that this man belongs to the whole world. 2000 Building Design 18 Feb. 23/1 Unfashionably, she disliked Bluewater..with its prescient superscription ‘out of the spent and unconsidered earth, the cities rise again’, and its no-smoking French bistros. b. figurative and in figurative contexts, originally and chiefly religious. ΚΠ 1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection ii. 245 You..thought it expedient..to set the image and superscription of God and his Church vpon your corruptible and earthly Mammon, and by that cunning to keepe it from Caesar. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (iii. 7) 677 God forbid that I should for this or that sinfull pleasure,..or whatsoeuer coyne hauing Satans superscription vpon it, sell mine inheritance. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 21 Finding him thus in disguise without his superscription or Phylactery either of holy or Prelat. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 190 I learn..How counterfeit a coin they are who friends Bear in their Superscription . View more context for this quotation 1707 M. Henry Expos. Five Bks. Moses Pref. sig. A2^v If we look wistly, we shall soon be aware of Gods Image and Superscription upon it [sc. scripture]. 1782 A. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 409 Your daughter, your image, your superscription, desires to be affectionately remembered to you. 1824 R. Hall Addr. State of Slavery in Wks. (1832) II. 316 They really believe they have a prescriptive right to be guilty of injustice, to trample on the image of their Maker, to erase his superscription. 1895 J. M. Falkner Lost Stradivarius xii. 190 That I should read, as I believed, on his young face the unmistakable image and superscription of death. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 11 And who has seen the moon, who has not..seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss. 1929 E. Wylie in Sel. Wks. (2005) v. 95 Our elements are the farthest skies apart; And I enjoin you, ere it is too late, To stamp your superscription on my heart. 1986 O. Chambers Devotions for Deeper Life 109 You must have goodness stamped upon your life by the superscription of Jesus Christ. c. Medicine. A part of a medical prescription: †(a) = signature n. 8 (obsolete); (b) the part containing the symbol ℞ (see R n. 15b, and recipe v.); the symbol itself. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > prescription or recipe > part of prescription subscription1741 superscription1741 signature1856 1741 tr. H. D. Gaubius Compl. Extemporaneous Dispensatory 22 The (VI.) last general part of a prescription or formula, is the superscription, of the medicine direction to the patient. 1884 Parrish's Treat. Pharmacy (ed. 5) 959 The Superscription consists of a very short abbreviation of the Latin verb Recipe, imperative mood of Recipio, I take, viz.: the letter ℞, which is often printed near the top of the prescription sheet. 1915 Jrnl. Amer. Pharm. Assoc. 4 619 We have the ‘Superscription or heading.’ 2002 W. N. Kelly Pharmacy 65 The writing of the inscription, subscription, and signatura is filled with specific terminology, and often uses Latin terms and abbreviations. 3. The name of the addressee, the address, or the full direction on a letter, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > addressee superscription1464 written-to1747 addressee1794 society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > address superscription1464 direction1586 superscript1598 address1622 inscription1741 home address1847 post-office address1849 1464 Sir J. Fortescue Let. 13 Dec. in Wks. (1869) I. 25 My lord, by cause we knew not verrely the kynge of Portingale is name, the quene is lettre hathe no superscripcione, nor the lettre fro my lord Prince; but ye moure [sic] knowe ham also welle by the seales..And I sende to you hereyn soche wordes of superscripcion as ye shalle sette uppone bothe lettres. 1518 H. Watson tr. Hystorye Olyuer of Castylle (Roxb.) E 1 He apperceyued the lettre, and he sawe euydently that the super scrypcyon was of his felowes hande wrytynge. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. C3^v The directions, which on the outside of euery Letter..are for the moste part infixed, and commonly are termed by the name of Superscriptions. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 53 No more but plaine and bluntly? (To the King.) Hath he forgot he is his Soueraigne? Or doth this churlish Superscription Pretend some alteration in good will? View more context for this quotation 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman i. 15 Scarce will he open a note..if Don be not in the superscription. 1738 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 513 I was extremely pleased to receive your handwriting in the Superscription of a Letter. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 369 When her eye glanced on the superscription, hardly could her trembling fingers break the seal. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. xii. 321 Eagerly breaking open a letter, which, from the superscription, you conclude to be from a dear..friend. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story ii When the family beheld the name of Lord Viscount Cinqbars upon the superscription, their respect for their lodger was greater than ever it had been. 1899 A. K. Green Agatha Webb 270 Sweetwater..had stolen a glimpse at the superscription on the letter he held... It was directed..to a Frederick. 1946 A. Bryant Postman's Horn (rev. ed.) Introd. 7 The recipient would scan the superscription—‘These for my loving wife, Madame Wynnington, at the Birches in Cheshire. Warrington bag’—then break the crested seal at the back and unfold the sheet. 1977 P. O'Brian Mauritius Command iii. 77 Among them was a paper bearing the superscription Lieutenant Johnson, R.N., Boadicea. 2009 M. Belcher Coll. Lett. A. W. N. Pugin III. 95 The writing is so abraded that only the surname is unambiguously legible but the superscription may once have been ‘C. Stanfield Esq^r’. Presumably the letter was delivered by hand. 4. A name signed on something; a signature. Now rare.See note at sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > signature hand1534 signature1579 superscriptionc1681 c1681 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1904) II. 397 To each clerk that took the poll, being foure, a guinea, to the men that got superscriptions for them, the like. 1820 F. Thurtle Hist. Spain v. v. 471 Signed with the usual superscription of the monarchs of Spain, ‘I—The King.’ 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin lxv. 606 ‘Is that in your handwriting, Sir?’.. ‘Yes, every word of it, except the superscription of the witnesses.’ 1921 Literary Digest 24 Dec. 4/1 These isolated bits, some of them signed with the unfamiliar superscription, ‘Walter Whitman.’ 5. The action of superscribing something. ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Superscription, the act of superscribing. 1785 G. Read Let. in W. T. Read Life & Corr. George Read (1870) 397 In your superscription of letters you are not to put Mr. and Esqr. at the same time,—one of them only is proper. 1837 C. Elliot Let. in Papers Establishment Court of Judicature China 245 The first point for consideration was a new mode of superscription. 1890 R. T. Jeffrey Salvation of Gospel 78 This singularity in the style of superscription has been thought intended to mark some exceptional significance. 1986 R. Young in S. Weber Demarcating Disciplines v. 125 The return of history becomes the process of superscription itself, a reinscription of the writing of the accident. 2009 N. Gonis in R. S. Bagnall Oxf. Handbk. Papyrology 174 Oblique strokes and sinusoids were often used in conjunction with superscription. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1382
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