insculpture

English

Noun

insculpture (plural insculptures)

(obsolete) An engraving or inscription.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:
  On his gravestone this insculpture.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for insculpture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Participle

īnsculptūre

vocative masculine singular of īnsculptūrus

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