Copyist
[kɒpiist]
Definition
(noun.) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts.
Typist: Owen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
Checker: Sondra
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Transcriber, copier.[2]. Imitator.
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Examples
- When Gutenberg and he were alone, he said, Are these books really made with a copyist’s pen? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They had little originality, and speedily became servile copyists, so that Palissy ware for a time lost the high place it had held. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The perforated strips were prepared in thirty minutes by ten persons, and duplicated by nine copyists. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- What would the plodding copyists say to this! Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- New books, for instance, were dictated to rows of copyists in the factories of the booksellers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Otherwise the copyists might try to destroy what I have done. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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