superscribe

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUPERSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin super and scribo, to write.] To write or engrave on the top, outside or surface; or to write the name or address of one on the outside or cover; as, to superscribe a letter.
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