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superscription
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superscription /su·per·scrip·tion/ (-skrip´shun) the heading of a prescription, i.e., the symbol ℞ or the word Recipe, meaning “take.”
su·per·scrip·tion (spr-skrpshn)
n.
The part of a prescription that bears the Latin word recipe represented by .

superscription [soo″per-skrip´shun]
something written above; the symbol ℞ or prescription sign (“take thou”), which is the first of four chief parts of a drug prescription.

superscription
something written above; the first of four chief parts of a drug prescription, the - prescription sign ('Take thou').


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14) Countering the dictum dating from the age that saw Shakespeare as the superscribe, namely that adaptations of his work ruined the plays, Fischlin and Fortier rightly stress that the normative, neoclassical adaptations by John Dryden, William Davenant, David Garrick, or Nahum Tate were not a token of irreverence towards Shakespeare but really ought to be recognized as a show of esteem for the playwright.
I'll go on," writes Samuel Becket in The Unnameable and, in like manner, Adorno says that it is "the uncompromisingly critical thinker, who neither superscribes his conscience nor permits himself to be terrorized into action, [who] in truth [is] the one who does not give up.
It takes a special young actor, after all, to convincingly deliver the volumes of introspective dialogue superscribe Kevin Williamson supplies for the WB network hit every week.
 
 
 
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