Definitions
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- Of or pertaining to an inscription; having the character of an inscription.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
inscription .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hitler, who had a preference for classic Roman imperial inscriptional letters, was one of the chief exponents of this style of type, which became explicitly identified with Nazi ideas of German nationalism.
Space: Sans-Serif Fresca 2010
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I tried to focus the most attention on neglected evidence, such as the statements of non-Jews about Jewish beliefs and practices, and the inscriptional and epigraphic evidence, rather than simply revisiting texts that are well-known, and so inevitably some well-accepted understandings of primary source material were at times assumed rather than defended.
Archive 2009-07-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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To take a more serious approach, there is archaeological/inscriptional evidence for the existence of Hezekiah, who is mentioned in Matthew's genealogy.
Mythicism and Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009
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I tried to focus the most attention on neglected evidence, such as the statements of non-Jews about Jewish beliefs and practices, and the inscriptional and epigraphic evidence, rather than simply revisiting texts that are well-known, and so inevitably some well-accepted understandings of primary source material were at times assumed rather than defended.
Ecce Recensus: The Only True God Persuades A Skeptic James F. McGrath 2009
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The letterpress landscape is littered with Qs: quad (short for quadrat), quoin, quarto, quire, question & quotation marks, even quadrata (Roman inscriptional capitals, of which I am particularly fond).
A to Z: Q is for Quatrefoil Unionpearl 2008
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The letterpress landscape is littered with Qs: quad (short for quadrat), quoin, quarto, quire, question & quotation marks, even quadrata (Roman inscriptional capitals, of which I am particularly fond).
Archive 2008-09-01 Unionpearl 2008
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The last inscriptional evidence of the presence of a bhikshuni nunnery in Burma is in 1287 CE, when Pagan fell to the Mongol invasion.
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In the third Critique, the metaphors for these moments are primarily oral, by contrast to the first Critique, where the emphasis is rather on the inscriptional character of the imagination and its products.
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I address the inscriptional character of the imagination in Kant more fully in a work-in-progress on the sublime.
Notes on 'Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)' 2005
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The last inscriptional evidence of the presence of a bhikshuni nunnery in Burma is in 1287 CE, when
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