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   Scribe

   /skrīb/

   

   noun

   • 1. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented. historical Similar clerksecretarycopyisttranscriberamanuensisrecorderrecord keepermallaminformal:pen-pusherpencil pusherarchaic:penmanscrivenerwriter
   • ▪ a writer, especially a journalist. informal, humorous Similar writerauthorpenmanjournalistreporterinformal:hack
   • 2. an ancient Jewish record-keeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist. historical
   • 3. another term for scriber

   verb

   • 1. write: literary "he scribed a note that he passed to Dan"
   • 2. mark with a scriber: "mark the position of the lock body on the door edge, then scribe a center mark"

   Word Origin Middle English (in scribe (sense 2 of the noun)): from Latin scriba, from scribere ‘write’. The verb was first used in the sense ‘write down’; in sense 2 it is perhaps partly a shortening of describe.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scribal adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

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