superscrivev.
/suːpəˈskrʌɪv/, /sjuːpəˈskrʌɪv/, /ˈsuːpəskrʌɪv/, /ˈsjuːpəskrʌɪv/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈskraɪv/, Scottish English /supərˈskraɪv/, /ˈsupərskraɪv/ Scottish. Now literary and rare.
transitive. = superscribe v.
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1628 Rec. Aberdeen Univ. 284 The names of the saidis contrabuitteris to be superscryuit to the saidis booke or bookes.
a1691 Visct. Kingston Hist. House Seytoun Contin. (1829) 83 His majestie did give him a writt superscrived by himself.
1716 H. Wallace Let. 26 Sept. in Cal. Stuart Papers Windsor Castle (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1904) II. 478 He..swore very seriously and with deep imprecations, that to his certain knowledge no such declaration was superscrived or allowed.
1854 J. Thomas First Bk. Etymol. i. i. 30 Super- scrive—( scrib-o), to write upon.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped i. 3 Here is the testamentary letter itself, superscrived by the own hand of our departed brother.
1898 J. M. Cobban Angel of Covenant xiv. 184 Yestere'en was a letter thrust into my hand by a caddie in the High Street, superscrived to me, but within the cover ‘To the Lady Katherine Graham’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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