If you inscribe words on an object, you write or carve the words on the object. Some galleries commemorate donors by inscribing their names on the walls stone slabs inscribed with Buddhist texts
address, as a work of literature, in a style less formal than a dedication write, engrave, or print as a lasting record draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible
If you inscribe something in the front of a book or on a photograph, you write it there, often before giving it to someone. On the back I had inscribed the words: `Here's to Great Ideas! John' The book is inscribed: To John Arlott from Laurie Lee. to carefully cut, print, or write words on something, especially on the surface of a stone or coin (inscribere, from scribere )