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Definition of Scriveners
1. scrivener [n] - See also: scrivener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scriveners
Literary usage of Scriveners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Records of the Society of Gentlemen Practisers in the Courts of Law and by Incorporated Law Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"The scriveners' Company at all events looked upon them as a success, and instructed
Mr. Bentham to renew the petition for the Act before the Court of Common ..."
2. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"scriveners' cramp would then resemble the convulsivo movements of chorea, and
stammering, and the movements which disturb the writer would have to be ..."
3. Dangerous Trades: The Historical, Social, and Legal Aspects of Industrial by Thomas Oliver (1902)
"Fatigue Neuroses: scriveners' Spasm, or Writers' Palsy. ... Steel pens have been
blamed for causing scriveners' palsy, because they have to be grasped more ..."
4. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... the Company of scriveners, the Company of Fruiterers, the Company of Plasterers,
the Company of ..."
5. Fosteriana, Consisting of Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms, of John Foster by John Foster (1858)
"HO AD-SIDE scriveners. ''A stranger will also not fail to be struck with the ...
or scriveners, who sit at their desks all day, in arched open recesses, ..."
6. Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including by Edward Wedlake Brayley (1829)
"The business of the now-extinct scriveners' Com- puny, was of a joint description,
and included both banking and conveyancing. They acted for themselves as ..."
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