(n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
(n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
Example Sentences:
(1) "But when you pull together all the evidence – archaeological, epigraphic and literary – it is overwhelming and, we believe, conclusive: they did kill their children, and on the evidence of the inscriptions, not just as an offering for future favours but fulfilling a promise that had already been made.
(2) In one of the epigraphs to the poem "Namely", a bristlingly humorous disquisition on his own unusual surname, he quotes Angus Calder, in Scotland on Sunday: "Few people thought Mick Imlah , who teaches at Oxford, was a 'Scottish poet'."
(3) One of the two epigraphs to my novel Boxer, Beetle , which contains a character based on a young Robert Moses, is a quotation from Jacobs: "We are all accustomed to believe that maps and reality are necessarily related, or that if they are not, we can make them so by altering reality."
(4) The Souls of Black Folk might appear to be a collection of essays (each chapter also has a musical epigraph derived from “10 master songs” from the Negro tradition) but it has a powerfully coherent inner structure.
(5) We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation.” Tizard’s wise words might be an epigraph – and an epitaph – for our story since then.
(6) His chapter, "The Sorrow Songs", expands on the significance of the bars of music from famous Negro spirituals which, alongside verses of English poetry - the two representing the Negro's divided inheritance - are threaded through as epigraphs to each chapter.
(7) In two books, Judd used lines from Camus as epigraphs: "If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it," and "Every wrong idea ends in bloodshed, but it's always the blood of others."
Inscription
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of inscribing.
(n.) That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
(n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.
(n.) An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is still difficult to apply for material reasons such as the small number of physiotherapists and the lack of inscription in the Social Security nomenclature.
(2) When we read ‘Donetsk’ on signs, when we stopped in the city and saw the inscription ‘DNR’.
(3) They included a 7th-century BC Assyrian inscription that, she discovered, had been mistranslated in the 1920s, reducing passages to "absolute nonsense".
(4) The two current criteria for diagnosis of left anterior fascicular block (LAFB) were evaluated; they are marked left axis deviation (LAD) and a delay in the time of inscription of the intrinsicoid deflection (ID) in lead aVL asynchronous to V6.
(5) Twelve patients underwent transplantation after external circulatory assistance (13%), 11 patients after inscription on the list of extreme emergencies, and 68 on an elective basis (74%).
(6) ), that is to say the inscription of the inconscious, particularly reported to the body and to the look.
(7) One female mummy is displayed with a translation of an offering inscription, which visitors will be invited to recite to ensure her food supply in the next world.
(8) In all nine, recording the precordial leads one intercostal space below the usual space eliminated the RBBB pattern in V1-V2 and resulted in inscription of a QS complex, whereas recording the leads one space higher than usual enhanced the height of the R wave.
(9) Almost every dedicatory inscription associated with public works--palaces, temples, etc.--expressed the importance of these kings' participation in what this writer terms a "family cult."
(10) He certainly seems to have exploited his firman or licence from the Sultan to remove "stones with inscriptions and figures" from the building with an enthusiasm that did not escape the critical notice of contemporary observers .
(11) You can sense his relief in the inscription above the gatehouse: "This worke 25 yards long was wholly built by Edw: N: Esq: Ano.
(12) The World Heritage Committee has previously changed the boundaries of protected sites, but it has stated its surprise at the Coalition’s stance on Tasmania’s forests given the short time since its inscription.
(13) Biventer cervicis (BC) is an anatomically complex muscle that is divided by tendinous inscriptions into five in-series compartments of motor units.
(14) Bipolar atrial electrograms were recorded from selected sites during threshold pacing from sites low on the right side of the atrial septum which when paced resulted in the inscription of either negative or positive P waves in electrocardiograph leads II, III, and aVF.
(15) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
(16) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
(17) However, during the inscription of positive retrograde P waves in man, activation occurs rapidly up the interatrial septum (we believe via the anterior internodal pathway) to Bachmann's bundle, from where it then spreads in a manner similar to that which occurs during normal sinus rhythm.
(18) As an expression of the systemic hemodynamic alteration, the decrease in time of inscription of the intrinsecoid deflection, of the left ventricle in V6 became evident when the mitral area diminished or by increase of mean pressure of the pulmonary artery.
(19) It's made me return to my meagre merchandise collection – a prop newspaper from III, a replica hoverboarding helmet from II (which came pre-autographed by the actor Thomas F Wilson , with the inscription "Biff to the Future!
(20) The cuffs are filled via different inlets clearly distinguished by color as well as by the inscriptions "proximal" and "distal".