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What does superscription mean?

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Noun
  1. Something written (or engraved) on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, etc.
  2. An editorial addition at the beginning, often indicating the authorship of a piece; compare colophon.
  3. The act of superscribing.
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This, without signature or superscription, he put into an envelope, and addressed.
Yes, every word of it, except the superscription of the witnesses.
The hymn opens with a superscription and each scene ends with similar thought.
Coins struck with the lord protector Cromwell's bust and superscription, although not uncommon, apart from the 1656 half crowns, seem never to have circulated.
Carry they not the true image and superscription of the father which begat them?
Yet the superscription is of his dictating, I dare say, for he is a formal wretch.

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