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‘the inscription of memorable utterances on durable materials’
‘Identification was by inscription, heraldry and, later, a rebus.’
‘The stone surfaces of the memorial are the ground for its other key gesture: the clever use of inscription.’
‘These techniques can be distinguished from those in which the body itself is an immediate object of elaboration and inscription.’
‘There's a barely controlled abandon, and more than a hint of anxiety that once the act of inscription has begun, it can't be undone.’
‘His research interests include gender studies and the body as a site for cultural inscription.’
‘Further, he points out, long messages are handled more efficiently by inscription.’
‘Something has been knifed inside me, and I do not want to lose the external sign of that inscription.’
‘Here the spoken material of language becomes the working object of scientific inscription.’
‘It is exactly about the stipulation that warrants inscription of the numbers and letters in black against a white backdrop.’
‘I set my cup aside for personal inscription the next time he comes through town, and that got me to thinking.’
‘Thus the process of inscription becomes a self-reflexive activity.’
Origin
Late Middle English (denoting a short descriptive or dedicatory passage at the beginning of a book): from Latin inscriptio(n-), from the verb inscribere (see inscribe).