a. [ad. late L. suprāscriptus, f. suprā above + scriptus written.] Written above: = SUPERSCRIPT a.
1882. Amer. Jrnl. Philol., III. 345. The reading … must have originated as a suprascript explanation in plain prose for [etc.].
1896. W. M. Lindsay, Introd. Latin Textual Emend., 36. In the original the h was expressed by this suprascript sign.
1902. Scotsman, 5 Nov., 11/7. To have one’s attention, at the height of a tragic climax, hitched up by a suprascript cipher.
