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inscription
The usually informal dedication of a book or an artistic work.
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  1. The usually informal dedication of a book or an artistic work.
  2. A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.
  3. A brief or informal dedication in a book, etc.
epigraph
(Mathematics, of a function) the set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
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  1. (Mathematics, of a function) the set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
  2. An inscription, as on a statue or building.
  3. A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
title
A formal appellation attached to the name of a person as a sign of office, rank, profession, or hereditary privilege.
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  1. A formal appellation attached to the name of a person as a sign of office, rank, profession, or hereditary privilege.
  2. A descriptive name; an epithet:
  3. (Sports & Games) A championship:
Find another word for superscription. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for superscription, like: inscription, epigraph, title, identification and label.

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  • 1 as superscription rather than part of the text.

  • The superscription in the case of Jude, unlike that of James, takes hold of the substance of the book.

  • The superscription, if original, compels us to treat the whole writing as not only late but pseudonymous.

  • These liturgical notes make extremely probable the supposition that the poem has been taken from some collection like that of our present book of Psalms, probably on the ground of the authorship asserted by the superscription there attached to it.

  • This is the more modern view, in contrast to the earlier theory most generally accepted, according to which he flourished about l00 B.C. The earlier theory started from the superscription of one of his works, Ηρωνος Κτησιβίον βελοποιϊκά, from which it was inferred that Hero was a pupil of Ctesibius.

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