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adj- Relating to or constituting something that is written as a lasting public record or a dedication.

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  • Having therefore so good a copy to imitate, I wrote; and, taking out that of my beloved, put under the same cover the following short billet; inscriptive and conclusive...
  • At transient rest in sheer potential, unselected by the inscriptive gestures of diction but not thereby cancelled entirely, these effects are not to be written out by...
  • Subtending even the local static of such a network and its inevitable interferences, isolated thereby in the imaginary sonics of phonemic silence (beyond any mechanics of...
  • London, deepening the inscriptive letters which told the heroic story.
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