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scribe

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[ skrahyb ]

noun

  1. a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
  2. a public clerk or writer, usually one having official status.
  3. Also called sopher, sofer. Judaism. one of the group of Palestinian scholars and teachers of Jewish law and tradition, active from the 5th century b.c. to the 1st century a.d., who transcribed, edited, and interpreted the Bible.
  4. a writer or author, especially a journalist.


verb (used without object)

, scribed, scrib·ing.
  1. to act as a scribe; write.

verb (used with object)

, scribed, scrib·ing.
  1. to write down.

scribe

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[ skrahyb ]

verb (used with object)

, scribed, scrib·ing.
  1. to mark or score (wood or the like) with a pointed instrument as a guide to cutting or assembling.

noun

Scribe

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[ skreeb ]

noun

  1. Au·gus·tin Eu·gène [oh-g, y, s-, tan, , œ, -, zhen], 1791–1861, French dramatist.

Scribe

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/ skrib /

noun

  1. ScribeAugustin Eugène17911861MFrenchWRITING: author of vaudevillesTHEATRE: dramatistMUSIC: librettist Augustin Eugène (oɡystɛ̃ øʒɛn). 1791–1861, French author or coauthor of over 350 vaudevilles, comedies, and libretti for light opera
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


scribe

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/ skraɪb /

noun

  1. a person who copies documents, esp a person who made handwritten copies before the invention of printing
  2. a clerk or public copyist
  3. Old Testament a recognized scholar and teacher of the Jewish Law
  4. Judaism a man qualified to write certain documents in accordance with religious requirements
  5. an author or journalist: used humorously
  6. another name for scriber
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to score a line on (a surface) with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈscribal, adjective
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Other Words From

  • scribal adjective
  • un·scribal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scribe1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin scrība clerk, derivative of scrībere to write

Origin of scribe2

First recorded in 1670–80; perhaps aphetic form of inscribe
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scribe1

(in the senses: writer, etc) C14: from Latin scrība clerk, from scrībere to write; C17 (vb): perhaps from inscribe
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Example Sentences

“We built Scribe specifically to do that, to build an engineering core focused exclusively on making the most advanced the very best therapeutic genome editing molecules that we could,” Oakes said.

These were supposed to simplify patient record-keeping, but instead they generated a need for scribes.

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This year, as the pandemic led patients to shun clinics and hospitals, many scribes were laid off or furloughed.

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Many have returned, but scribes are increasingly working online—even from the other side of the world.

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When I was growing up as a kid playing Dungeons and Dragons, I didn’t dream about being the scribe.

George R.R. Martin, the beloved scribe behind the A Song of Ice and Fire series, seems fairly convinced that he is a feminist.

If you were particularly interested in one topic, you would order your scribe to write down only the relevant items.

Doing research for a PhD project, he became a scribe of the tribe on their urban adventures.

Or perhaps the conversation reached a breaking point, said feminist scribe Naomi Wolf, because people are simply fed up.

The scribe for Sporting News befriended Ghawi after exchanging messages with her online, he told The Daily Beast.

The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.

Even the scribe has seen this, and has altered were to ware, to give a rime to the eye.

The readings pleye, pley are evidently false; the scribe has omitted the stroke for n above the vowel.

The scribe easily turned yerde in into gardin, but ruined the sense by it.

Sometimes one of the refrains is actually omitted, but this may be the scribe's fault.

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