Amanuensis
[ə,mænjʊ'ensɪs] or [ə,mænju'ɛnsɪs]
Definition
(n.) A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Scribe, copyist, transcriber, writer.
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Definition
n. one who writes to dictation: a copyist: a secretary:—pl. Amanuen′sēs.
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Examples
- I could dictate it, though, with pleasure, to an amanuensis who suited me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The coin operated, or nickel-in-the-slot machine, finds a popular demand, while its utilitarian use as an amanuensis, or stenographer, is as yet a subordinate one. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These difficulties, however, have been so far overcome by modern improvements and simplification of the machine that its use in business houses as an amanuensis has become quite common. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Its leaves were blotted all over with relics of the firm, strong, rapid handwriting of the spinster's late amanuensis, Mrs. Bute Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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