scribe

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noun 5verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

2

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

3

A journalist.

4

A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

5

A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

verb

1

To write.

2

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.

he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard

3

To record, as a scribe.

4

To write or draw with a scribe.

5

To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.

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