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Meanings of scribe in English
Synonyms
Examples for "copyist"
Examples for "copyist"
1
By seven o'clock next morning the score was ready for the copyist.
2
Two years later he entered an attorney's office as copyist and student.
3
Next I was employed in the chancery office as a copyist.
4
So the next copyist would put it into his own text.
5
They are immeasurably verbose, not to mention the blunders of the first copyist.
1
Let's look at other kinds of instructions the scrivener has to interpret.
2
There was the most dastardly murder done, almost opposite the scrivener's shop.
3
Some days passed, the scrivener being employed upon another lengthy work.
4
I have my scrivener's stall in the market of the Rue de Sèvres.
5
The remark attracted Napoleon's attention and led to the promotion of the scrivener.
Portuguese
escriba Russian
чертилка Spanish
punta de trazar Usage of scribe in English
1
The speaker was a scribe in the palace of Herod the Great.
2
A good science writer is an expert as well as a scribe.
3
The nomenclature of this gown is beyond the guess of the scribe.
4
This was the era of the scribe rather than of the priest.
5
Nevertheless, he would stay with the scribe until the job was completed.
6
In due time I take service under the Government as a scribe-
7
Norwegian scribe Jo Nesbo returns to confirm that there is another way.
8
Where polish is more in evidence than naturalness, we have-thetown scribe.
9
A military scribe kept this register in every royal nome or principality.
10
A breed that the scribe, like many others, had reason to fear.
11
The Greek scribe was with him, so the meeting had been foreseen.
12
He lived at the period when the wise man was turning scribe.
13
The song referred to, composed by some unknown scribe begins as follows:
14
The paleographers regard this passage as tacked on by a later scribe.
15
The first guest to arrive was Huldah, wife of a Temple scribe.
16
And indeed several of our authorities relate that a scribe named Cn.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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