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inscription noun autograph, caption, dedication, engraving, entry, index, inscriptio, legend, mark, record, superscription, titulus, written matter
Associated concepts: inscribed securities, registration of a deed
See also: caption, dedication, designation, entry, marginalia, notation, phrase, record, title

INSCRIPTION, civil law. An engagement which a person, who makes a solemn accusation of a crime against another, enters into, that he will suffer the same punishment, if he has accused, the other falsely, which would have been inflicted upon him had he been guilty. Code, 9, 1, 10; Id. 9, 2, 16 and 17.

INSCRIPTION, evidence. Something written or engraved.
     2. Inscriptions upon tombstones and other proper places, as rings, and the like, are held to be evidence of pedigree. Bull. N. P. 233 Cowp. 591; 10 East, R. 120 13 Ves. 145 Vin. Ab. Ev. T. b. 87: 3 Stark. Ev. 116.
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The most significant pieces on display at the Saudi pavilion is the Mikab Temah (Temah Cube), an inscriptive cube indicating pre-Islamic times dating back to 18th century before Christ, in addition to potteries representing the Abbasid period and the stone tools and arrows dating back to Paleolithic age.
SCTA to retrieve national relics abroad by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Focusing especially on the representational strategy of moving readers and/or audiences toward a sense of intimate access and knowledge through logical, rational, ethical, and emotional appeals, this book considers the historiographic and dramatic reimagining of the Elizabethan past and present through inscriptive depictions of the (largely invented) feelings, motives, and goals of historical and fictive figures" (6).
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