inscribe.
To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
Meaning & usage
To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
I inscribed the book with a message for Kate.
I inscribed my name into the book.
To dedicate to someone.
To enter on a document or list; to enroll.
To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin īnscrībō, from in- (“upon”) and scrībō (“to write”).
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