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The definition of a scribe is a person who copies manuscripts or a pointed instrument used for marking where something should be cut.
(noun)- An example of a scribe is the person who would have made copies of the Bible before the invention of the printing press.
- An example of scribe is what someone would use to mark a piece of wood showing where it is to be cut.
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See scribe in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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
Origin: 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
- to score (wood, bricks, etc.) with a scribe
- to mark (a line) with a scribe
intransitive verb
to work as a scribe
Scribe,
Augustin Eugène 1791-1861; Fr. dramatist & librettist
See scribe in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times.
- A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.
- A writer or journalist.
- See scriber.
- To mark with a scriber.
- To write or inscribe.
To work as a scribe.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Late Latin scrība
Origin: , from Latin, keeper of accounts, secretary
Origin: , from scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- scribˈal adjective
French playwright whose works include more than 300 comedies of manners.
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