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[skrahyb] 
noun, verb, scribed, scrib⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a person who serves as a professional copyist, esp. 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, esp. a journalist. |
–verb (used without object)
| 5. | to act as a scribe; write. |
–verb (used with object)
| 6. | to write down. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L scrība clerk, deriv. of scrībere to write
1350–1400; ME < L scrība clerk, deriv. of scrībere to write
Related forms:
scribal, adjective
Scribe
[skreeb] –noun
| Au⋅gus⋅tin Eu⋅gène [oh-gys-tan œ-zhen] , 1791–1861, French dramatist. |
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| scribe (skrīb) n.
v. tr.
To work as a scribe. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin scrība, from Latin, keeper of accounts, secretary, from scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.] scrib'al adj. |
| Scribe (skrēb) French playwright whose works include more than 300 comedies of manners. |
| scrib·er (skrī'bər) n. A sharply pointed tool used for marking lines, as on wood, metal, or ceramic. Also called scribe. |
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Scribe\ (skr[imac]b), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. ska`rifos a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. Ascribe, Describe, Script, Scrivener, Scrutoire.]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.Scribe
Scribe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scribing.]1. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. --Spenser. 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 scribe, 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
Scribe\, v. i. To make a mark. With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. --A. M. Mayer.
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1377, from L.L. scriba "teacher of Jewish law," used in Vulgate to render Gk. grammateus, corresponding to Heb. sopher "writer, scholar." In secular L., scriba meant "keeper of accounts, secretary" (from scribere "to write;" see script). It recovered this sense in Eng. 16c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Scribe
A text-formatting language by Brian Reid.
(1994-12-01)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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