Emily Dickinson Lexicon

inscribe (-s), v. [L. inscrībere, write in or on.] (webplay: touch).

1. Imprint, write; [fig] indicate
2. Write; engrave for perpetuity or duration; as to inscribe a line of verse on a monument [word play: ED uses the sense of perpetuity as a reference to the memorialization of an individual after death.]