superscription
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"James" is also a homily exhorting to patient endurance, but there is nothing to suggest its having ever been sent anywhere as a letter, save the brief superscription written in imitation of 1st Pet. i.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
The superscription and the subscription should alike be in accordance with the tone of the communication, and the domestic or social relation of those between whom it passes.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
My servant, who has lived with me fourteen years, may, for aught I know, have been bribed to abstract these letters on their arrival; they would be easily recognized by the very superscription.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
"Margaret Van Eyck," was the reply: for they naturally thought the contents were by the same hand as the superscription.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
"Man and the earth,"—this has been the subject of our previous disquisitions, and might serve as the superscription to this first portion of the work.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
