copyist Definition
copy·ist (-ist)
noun
- a person who makes written copies; transcriber
- a person who imitates; copier
copyist Synonyms
copyist
n.
copyist Usage Examples
Possessives
error: One is the establishment of the original text on the basis of the many later manuscripts with their frequent copyists ' errors.
Preposition: of
manuscript: The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that the copyists of biblical manuscripts took great care in going about their work.
Converse of object
have: On the question of copying errors, in the many and various manuscripts that remain today, a large number have copyists ' errors.
Adjective modifier
- unidentified: Complete set of seven partbooks; unidentified copyist, probably Italian, probably early 17th century.
- mere: Ibn Sa'd was much more than just a mere copyist.
- Christian: I would not, and I don't believe the Christian copyists would have either.
- late: A later copyist might have felt this is what the original author had intended when he saw " 169 years " before him.
- same: Other sections of this work, partly in the hand of the same copyist, are in Mus.
- professional: In some cases these would have been done by professional copyists called scribes.
Modifies a noun
Browse dictionary entries near copyist
- ‹ copyholder
- ‹ copyhold
- ‹ copycat
- ‹ copybook
- ‹ copy-text
- ‹ copy editor
- ‹ copy desk
- ‹ copy boy
- ‹ copy
- ‹ copulative

