Scription

The omission of words or parts of words; as, "Jogphiz 'scription' th o [long e, macron] th." ❋ Adelaide De Vendel (1864)

Liechti brought his "sock-scription" service to the U.S. in 2005. ❋ Dale Buss (2010)

As much as I love the eye candy and good techniques in QArts, I too have let my scription lapse after two years. ❋ Katelnorth (2008)

There was neither super - scription nor signature. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well now, I don't believe assa property scription. ❋ Unknown (2009)

July 4, 2008 at 3:59 pm duh sry, yew gab teh scription in teh nawt second post……. sheesh ai will put on mai finkin cap an see iffn ai can cums up wif a suggestion 4 yew.. be carefull at the fyrewerks ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sup — pose them therefore always included in my sub — scription to you, my Lucy, when ❋ Unknown (2006)

As I shall write and deposit as I have opportunity, the formality of super and sub-scription will be excused. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The beaded scription welded on the side tells me this was their Federal Well #1. ❋ Grouse (2002)

"He wasn't the one who provided us with the de scription," Smilow told them. ❋ Brown, Sandra, 1948- (1999)

A box canyon, very short and steep-sided, Susan had said, and the de-scription was perfectly accurate. ❋ King, Stephen (1997)

Others gave a de - scription of lightning that broke the great lintel of the Temple that day. ❋ Mailer, Norman (1997)

In the second half of the sixteenth century the pro - scription of the eccentric artist was rather general. ❋ RUDOLF WITTKOWER (1968)

Thomson's Seasons, particularly in Chapter II, “De - scription and Science.” ❋ MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON (1968)

The present description of the action of genes in controlling protein synthesis, which is the core of molecular biology, is isomorphic with the de - scription of an automobile factory including quality control, inventory control, assembly lines, and the like. ❋ R. C. LEWONTIN (1968)