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Meanings of scrivener in English
Synonyms
Examples for "notary"
Examples for "notary"
1
This was a grave, smooth-faced individual in the attire of a notary.
2
And he pushed the notary in his evening coat into the street.
3
In France the key person in a property transaction is the notary.
4
So he drew in his horns and met the notary half way.
5
While the ceremony is yet in progress, the notary is called out.
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.
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.
Usage of scrivener in English
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.
6
I don't want you to settle down as a city scrivener.
7
And from then on, he became very much a scrivener-type lawyer.
8
He wrote with the scrivener's equivalent of marbles in the mouth.
9
I have not yet reached that point in the Tables where 'money-scrivener' is defined.
10
My people once used the services of a scrivener down by the London docks.
11
His father followed the profession of a scrivener, in which he acquired a competence.
12
As they kissed, Rachel's hand found the scrivener's readied instrument.
13
Commander, a scrivener, came to me from Mr. Moore with a deed of which.
14
Mr. O'Reilly was a scrivener, a husband and a father.
15
As Harry anticipated, Jacob was delighted at the prospect of abandoning his scrivener's desk.
16
Your duty is as a scrivener, not a questioner.
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