INSCRIBE

v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.

2.
v.

To mark with letters, charakters, or words. O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. Pope.

3.
v.

To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. Dryden.

4.
v.

To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

5.
v.

To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.