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scribe definition
scribe (skrīb)
noun
- a professional penman who copied manuscripts before the invention of printing
- a writer or author
- a person learned in the Jewish law who makes handwritten copies of the Torah
- a person employed by the general public to write letters, etc.
- a pointed instrument for scoring stone, brick, wood, etc. to show where it is to be cutalso scriber scrib′er
Etymology: ME < L scriba, public writer, scribe, in LL(Ec), doctor of the Jewish law < scribere, to write < IE *skeribh- < base *(s)ker-, to cut, incise > shear
transitive verb scribed, scribing scrib′·ing
- to score (wood, bricks, etc.) with a scribe
- to mark (a line) with a scribe
intransitive verb
to work as a scribe
Scribe definition
Scribe (skrēb)
Scribe,
Augustin Eugène (ō̂ güs tan′ ö z̸hen′) 1791-1861; Fr. dramatist & librettist
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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