Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A handwriting, especially when presenting any peculiarity by which the writer or the epoch of the writing may be fixed: as, a scription of the fourteenth century.
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Examples
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The omission of words or parts of words; as, "Jogphiz 'scription' th o [long e, macron] th."
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Liechti brought his "sock-scription" service to the U.S. in 2005.
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Liechti brought his "sock-scription" service to the U.S. in 2005.
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As much as I love the eye candy and good techniques in QArts, I too have let my scription lapse after two years.
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There was neither super - scription nor signature.
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Liechti brought his "sock-scription" service to the U.S. in 2005.
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Poetry written by chance represents a form of automatic scription that displaces the agency of the author onto a system of impersonal, if not mechanical, procedures, the likes of which call to mind the satiric fantasy of Swift, who imagines “a project for improving speculative knowledge by […] mechanical operations” so that even “the most ignorant person […] may write books […] without the least assistance from genius or study.”
Poetic Machines 06 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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PRIZES: First prize will receive a sub- scription to F&SF good for the next sixty years along with a copy of The Diamond Jubilee.
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PRIZES: First prize will receive a sub- scription to F&SF good for the next sixty years along with a copy of The Diamond Jubilee.
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Well now, I don't believe assa property scription.
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