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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
INSCRI'BE, v.t. [L. inscribo; in and scribo,to write, Eng. to scrape. See Scribe.]
To write or
engrave] to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope. To mark with letters, characters, or
words.
O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. Pope. To assign or address to; to commend to by
a short address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an
ode to a friend.
Dryden. To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp;
as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
To draw within so as to
meet yet not cut the boundaries.
* A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former. | ||||||||