INSCRIBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inscribed mean? 

• INSCRIBED (adjective)
  The adjective INSCRIBED has 2 senses:

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

2. cut or impressed into a surface

  Familiarity information: INSCRIBED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSCRIBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Similar:

written (set down in writing in any of various ways)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut or impressed into a surface

Synonyms:

engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed

Context example:

engraved invitations

Similar:

carved; carven (made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary))

 Context examples 

I awoke with them, often, in the night; I remember to have even read them, in dreams, inscribed upon the walls of houses.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Finally I heard a click, the broad green door swung open, and inside I had a glimpse of a number of paper packets, each tied, sealed, and inscribed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in pigeonhole M., done up in a blue envelope and inscribed ‘Moriarty.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was at his own very earnest request that they inscribed He fought the good fight upon his tombstone, and though I cannot doubt that he had Black Bank and Crab Wilson in his mind when he asked it, yet none who knew him would grudge its spiritual meaning as a summing up of his clean and manly life.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word Resurgam.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The interview left Sherlock Holmes very thoughtful, and several times in the next few days I saw him take his slip of paper from his notebook and look long and earnestly at the curious figures inscribed upon it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cannot help thinking, said Mrs. Micawber, with an air of deep sagacity, that there are members of my family who have been apprehensive that Mr. Micawber would solicit them for their names.—I do not mean to be conferred in Baptism upon our children, but to be inscribed on Bills of Exchange, and negotiated in the Money Market.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapour sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Inscribed upon it, in the jagged handwriting of Professor Challenger, were the words:—

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)