Definition of Inscribed

1. Adjective. Written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface.

Similar to: Written

2. Adjective. Cut or impressed into a surface. "Engraved invitations"
Exact synonyms: Engraved, Etched, Graven, Incised
Similar to: Carved, Carven

Definition of Inscribed

1. Verb. (past of inscribe) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inscribed

1. inscribe [v] - See also: inscribe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inscribed

insatiatenesses
insatiaty
insatiety
insatisfaction
insatisfactions
insaturable
inscape
inscapes
inscience
inscient
insconce
insconced
insconces
inscribable
inscribe
inscribed
inscriber
inscribers
inscribes
inscribing
inscriptible
inscriptio
inscriptio tendinea
inscription
inscriptional
inscriptionally
inscriptionist
inscriptionists
inscriptions
inscriptive

Literary usage of Inscribed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"Inscribed pentagons set the opposite way are inscribed in the two smaller ... Regular pentagons inscribed in the larger circles with vertices at the proper ..."

2. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"If the rectangle under the segments of one of the perpendiculars of a triangle inscribed in 8 be constant, and = M, the locus of intersection of ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1911)
"Vol 1. inscribed "Samuel Mathers Book 1733." MEISNER, BALTHAZAR. ... Inscribed "S. Mather's, 1745." Modern Pleas for Schism and Infidelity Reviewed. ..."

4. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"The Genealogy of the first twelve Emperors and Empresses, with their Portraits, from medals ; two sheets. The Kings of Poland, in medallions ; inscribed ..."

5. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1877)
"On the reverse side these words are inscribed :— " By ... [These lines were inscribed by Burns in a copy of Fergusson's Poems presented by him to a young ..."

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