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The word "inscribe" has been employed in literature with a rich diversity of meanings that span concrete and abstract domains. In poetic contexts, as in Pushkin’s line [1], "inscribe" suggests engraving a song onto the heart or memory, evoking a sense of artistic permanence. Conversely, its application in academic and scientific discourses—illustrated repeatedly by Jefferson’s geometric constructions of circles with various polygons ([2], [3], [4], [5], [6])—emphasizes precision and methodical recording. Authors also leverage the term metaphorically; Dumas’s remark about names on ledgers [7] and Nero’s discussion of inscribing laws on a blank slate in Plato [8] both invoke the idea of marking significance for posterity. Furthermore, its use to denote personal legacy, as seen in the inscription of life mottos ([9]) and the act of recording identities or dedicatory texts ([10], [11], [12], [13]), underscores “inscribe” as a versatile term that bridges the tangible act of marking with the more contemplative act of memorializing.
  1. Of maids dost thou inscribe thy song?
    — from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
  2. To inscribe in a circle polygons of 3, 6, 12, 24, sides.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  3. To inscribe or circumscribe a circle to a given triangle.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  4. To inscribe in a circle polygons of 4, 8, 16, 32, sides.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  5. To inscribe in a circle polygons of 15, 30, 60, sides.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  6. To inscribe in a circle polygons of 5, 10, 20, 40, sides.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  7. It is a fine name to inscribe on my ledgers, and my cashier was quite proud of it when I explained to him who the Cavalcanti were.
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  8. He will begin with a ‘tabula rasa’ and there inscribe his laws.
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato
  9. —Both Rousseau and Schopenhauer were proud enough to inscribe upon their lives the motto, Vitam impendere vero .
    — from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  10. Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"
    — from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein
  11. Now, therefore, having dedicated the First volume of the Spectator to Somers, it is to Halifax that Steele and he inscribe the Second.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  12. Now, therefore, having dedicated the First volume of the Spectator to Somers, it is to Halifax that Steele and he inscribe the Second.
    — from The Spectator, Volume 1 by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
  13. [73] And [Pg lxxi] to deprive a citizen of his rights it was enough to inscribe his name in the list of magnates.
    — from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

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