Inscribe
v. t.- To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
- To mark with letters, characters, or words.
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To assign or address to; to commend to by a short 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 - (Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is
