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Webster 1913 Edition
Scribe
Scribe
(skrīb)
, Noun.
1.
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
2.
(Jewish Hist.)
A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Scribe
(skrīb)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Scribed
(skrībd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scribing
.] 1.
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
Spenser.
2.
(Carp.)
To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; – so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
3.
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Scribing iron
, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.
Scribe
,Verb.
I.
To make a mark.
With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers
scribe
around the edge of the templet. A. M. Mayer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scribe
SCRIBE
,Noun.
1.
In a general sense, a writer. Hence,2.
A notary; a public writer.3.
In ecclesiastical meetings and associations in America, a secretary or clerk; one who records the transactions of an ecclesiastical body.4.
In Scripture and the Jewish history, a clerk or secretary to the king. Seraiah was scribe to king David. 2Sam. 8.
5.
An officer who enrolled or kept the rolls of the army, and called over the names and reviewed them. 2Ch. 24. 2Kings 25.6.
A writer and a doctor of the law; a man of learning; one skilled in the law; one who read and explained the law to the people. Ezra 8.SCRIBE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
scribe (plural scribes)
- One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
- 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:
- [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.
- A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.W
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- 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.
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- (archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
- A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
- A writer, especially a journalist.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who writes; a draughtsman
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writer and doctor of the law
steel drawing implement
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writer, journalist
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Verb
scribe (third-person singular simple present scribes, present participle scribing, simple past and past participle scribed)
- To write.
- To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- To record.
- To write or draw with a scribe.
- (carpentry) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.; so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
- To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Related terms
Translations
to write
to record
to write or draw with a scribe
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