Scribe
[skraɪb]
Definition
(noun.) informal terms for journalists.
(noun.) French playwright (1791-1861).
(verb.) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking.
Checked by Giselle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
(n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
(v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
(v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
(v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
(v. i.) To make a mark.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Writer, penman, chirographer, chirographist, amanuensis, copyist, scrivener.[2]. Clerk, secretary, notary.
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Definition
n. a writer: a public or official writer: a clerk amanuensis secretary: (B.) an expounder and teacher of the Mosaic and traditional law: a pointed instrument to mark lines on wood &c.—v.t. to write: to record: to mark.—adjs. Scrī′bable capable of being written upon; Scribā′cious given to writing.—n. Scribā′ciousness.—adj. Scrī′bal pertaining to a scribe.—ns. Scrī′bing; Scrī′bing-com′pass an instrument used in saddlery and cooper-work; Scrī′bism.
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Examples
- Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Art thou sure it’s not the pencraft of some skilful scribe? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And if there were, they had no recording scribes to embalm their efforts in history. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- About the monarch were accumulated his scribes, counsellors, record keepers, agents, captains, and guards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Aye, answered his wife, and they will be cheaper than the works written out by the scribes, and still be so costly that whoever can make them ought to grow rich from the sale. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Thou must have a great company of scribes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Reading and writing had already long escaped from the temple precincts and the ranks of the court scribes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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