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Definition of Scribe

1. Verb. Score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking.

2. Noun. French playwright (1791-1861).

3. Noun. Informal terms for journalists.

4. Noun. Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts.

5. Noun. A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut.

Definition of Scribe

1. n. One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.

2. v. t. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

3. v. i. To make a mark.

Definition of Scribe

1. Noun. One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist. ¹

2. Noun. (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. ¹

3. Noun. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber. ¹

4. Noun. A writer, especially a journalist. ¹

5. Verb. To write. ¹

6. Verb. To record. ¹

7. Verb. To write or draw with a '''scribe'''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scribe

1. to mark with a scriber [v SCRIBED, SCRIBING, SCRIBES]

Medical Definition of Scribe

1. 1. To write, trace, or mark by making a line with a marker or pointed instrument, as in surveying a dental cast for a removable prosthesis. 2. To form, by instrumentation, negative areas within a master cast to provide a positive beading in the framework of a removable partial denture, or the posterior palatal seal area for a complete denture. Origin: L. Scribo, pp. Scripto, to write (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scribe

scribbets scribble scribbled scribblement scribblements scribbler scribblers scribbles scribblier scribbliest

scribbling scribbling block scribblingly scribblings scribbly scribe (current term) scribed scriber scribers scribes

scribing scribing block scribings scribism scribisms scrid scrids scriech scrieched scriechs

Literary usage of Scribe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Musical World (1868)
"in 3 acts, words by scribe and Castil-Blaze (music written conjointly with ... La Fiancee du Roi di Oarbe, 8 acts and 6 tableaux, words by scribe and M. de ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Then Eugene scribe came to the rescue, having gradually found out what the ... So Paris loved scribe, paid him a fortune, made him a great social as well as ..."

3. The Contemporary Drama of France by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1920)
"But where scribe had been merely an expert craftsman, Augier and Dumas ... If scribe saw in the theatre just the theatre, they saw in it a means to an end. ..."

4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"7,10,12,14 ; Mazurkas, opp. 3,25; Preludes, opp. 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 22, 27 ; besides nocturnes, a valse, and other small pieces. и. к. scribe ..."

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