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Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature. "The subscriptive part." Richardson. -- Sub*scrip"tive*ly, adv.

Superscription. [Obs.] "I will overglance the superscript." Shak.

hing else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, or the like. Holland. The superscription of his accusation was written over, The King of the Jews. Mark xv. 26.

g of the same words as the original; a written copy. The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript. South.

or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription. [R.] -- Tran*scrip"tive*ly, adv. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.

An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

A description of the air or atmosphere; aërology.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

A description of the grasses.

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.

An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. [Obs.] Cowell.

The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show…

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures. L. Addison.

r more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.