Meaning

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
2. (informal) A journalist.
3. (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.
4. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
5. To write.
6. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
7. To record, as a scribe.
8. To write or draw with a scribe.

Example Sentences

[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.

There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.

he scribed his name on the mould, and wrote it on the two pieces of pasteboard

There was the curious fascination expressed regarding the triangular relationship between the poor white, the black, and the hookworm — suggesting a desire to differentiate and segregate the poor white body from that of the black and to scribe more boldly what was often, for the poorest people of the South, a very thin line.

Word Forms

• scribes
• scribing
• scribed

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Use scribe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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