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Definition of Scrivener
1. Noun. Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts.
Generic synonyms: Employee
Specialized synonyms: Ezra
Derivative terms: Copy, Copy, Copy
Definition of Scrivener
1. n. A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
Definition of Scrivener
1. Noun. A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker. ¹
3. Noun. A writing master. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrivener
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrivener
Literary usage of Scrivener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1826)
"175,) that a practising attorney, negotiating loans [ 933 * ] ¡n tne course of
his business ¡s not a money scrivener within the meaning of tbe bankrupt laws ..."
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"The contingency of losing all being showed, the bill was going to be dismissed
4 t>ut one of the plaintiff's council said that the scrivener was a strange ..."
3. The New-York Legal Observer by Samuel Owen (1845)
"The general trust reposed in the scrivener was there urged as making 'an authority
for him to receive payment. On the other hand, it was said that the ..."
4. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1913)
"M. Mery. Nay, I would I had of my purse paid forty pens. 420 scrivener. ...
scrivener. I am not afraid in his presence to appear. R. Roister. ..."
5. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"(p) a scrivener receiving others money or estates into his trust or custody, ...
A scrivener, it seems, is a person that in the ordinary course of his ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1833)
"ON THE TRADE OR OCCUPATION OF A scrivener. THE term scrivener, though generally
known, is not well understood; and the attention of many has been turned to ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State by Lewis Halsey Sandford, New York (State). Court of Chancery, Lewis Halsey Sandford, 1807-1852 (1847)
"Sir O. Bridgman, Lord Keeper, decided that the payment to the scrivener did not
... The plaintiff all along paid his interest to the scrivener, and about ..."
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