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noun

Scribe n.

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.

verb

Scribe v. t. (past & past part. scribed; pres. part. scribing)

1.

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

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 v. i. To make a mark. "With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet."

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Etymology of 'Scribe'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scribe" Quotes from Famous Books

... a Party, a Real Party?" The excited scribe abandoned her letter altogether, and followed Elinor over by the fire-place, nearer to Ross and the ...

— The Heart of Arethusa • Francis Barton Fox

... himself. He courted and served the politicians. He conducted party newspapers for them, without political convictions of his own. But when he had done the work of carrying elections and creating popularity, he did not find the idols he had set up at all disposed to reward the obscure scribe to whom ...

— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton

... three took up flaming chunks from the fire and held them as torches for him to see by. In time the entire company assembled about them, standing in respectful silence, broken only occasionally by a reply from one or another to some question from the scribe. After a little there was a sound of a roll-call, and reading and a short colloquy followed, and then two men, one with a paper in his hand, approached the fire beside which the officers ...

— The Burial of the Guns • Thomas Nelson Page

... which has the Holy Grail for its centre is concerned with Britain and Britain alone. Caerleon and Winchester, Tintagel and Glastonbury, these are the chief stages in this great romance of perfect knighthood; and whether related by a scribe of Hainault in the thirteenth century or sung by a Welsh bard before the Norman Conquest or praised at the court at Paris by the favourite troubadour of Philip Augustus, it is all one as regards the setting and the chief characters. 'Whether for goodly men or for chivalrous deeds, for courtesy or ...

— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan

... fields that gleaning Ruth toiled O'er, They saw afar the ruined threshing-floor Where Moab's daughter, homeless and forlorn, Found Boaz slumbering by his heaps of corn; And some remembered how the holy scribe, Skilled in the lore of every jealous tribe, Traced the warm blood of Jesse's royal son To that fair alien, bravely wooed and won. So fared they on to seek the promised sign That marked the anointed heir ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

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