v. [f. E- pref.3 + L. scrībĕre to write.]
† 1. trans. To write or copy out. (More commonly EXSCRIBE.) Obs.
1558. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 30. An old book of Precedences which was escribed, extracted out of the elder Precedences of the town.
2. Math. To describe (a circle) so as to touch one side of a triangle exteriorly, and the productions of the other two sides. (Cf. EXSCRIBE.) Hence Escribed ppl. a.
1870. W. Chauvenet, Geom., II. 87. The three circles which lie without the triangle have been named escribed circles.
1881. J. Casey, Sequel to Euclid, 54. If the circle touch … the sides AB, AC produced; that is if it be an escribed circle.
