superscribe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to write an address, title, or other words on the outside or upper part of something

   The solicitor superscribed the sealed envelope with instructions for its destruction.

From Latin superscribere, 'to write above or upon,' formed from super ('above') and scribere ('to write'). English superscribe has long been used for writing an address or direction on the exterior of a letter or document.

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