Inscription vs Superscription - What's the difference?
inscription | superscription |
Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone.
The text on a coin.
Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.
Something written (or engraved) on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, etc.
* 1930 , Pearl S. Buck, East wind: west wind , Moyer Bell, page 124:
*1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1140:
*:Schwartz glanced at the printed superscription on the envelope and grumbled as he put the envelope away in his overcoat pocket, to read at leisure.
An editorial addition at the beginning, often indicating the authorship of a piece; compare colophon.
The act of superscribing.
As nouns the difference between inscription and superscription
is that inscription is text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone while superscription is something written (or engraved) on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, etc.inscription
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(wikipedia inscription) (en noun)superscription
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(en noun)- Its superscription was my name, and the name of the sender, my mother.
- 1911' ''By a pure error, or perhaps through a confusion in the traditions, Achish the Philistine (of Gath, 1 Sam. xxi., xxvii.), to whom David fled, is called Abimelech in the '''superscription to Psalm 34. — .
