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inscribe

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To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

To mark with letters, charakters, or words.

To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.

To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete. Robert Browning

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. Sophocles

These men traveling down to the City in the morning, reading their newspapers or staring at advertisements above the opposite seats, they have no doubt of who they are. Inscribe on the placard in place of the advertisement for corn-plasters, Elliot's lines: We are the hollow men. Colin Wilson

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Cicero

Inscribe science in writing. Arabic Proverb

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