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  1. noun A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times.
  2. noun A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.
  3. noun A writer or journalist.
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  • I am teaching him my former calling as a scribe, and one day he may hold my old position in the palace. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
  • He knows that not only you but also Senin, Thaddeus, Josar, and even Izaz the scribe were at the king's bedside well into the night. —  The BROTHERHOOD of the HOLY SHRO
  • At ease in her long chair in one of the tasteful reception rooms, with her own slavegirl in attendance for decency's sake, Caenis smiled a little as she dictated it to a thin Greek scribe So pleasant to hear from you; so kind of you to remember me. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
  • For this Cataract City scribe, the years spent watching Jonny Flynn craft his game on the hardwood of Niagara Falls High School's Wolvearena was like a honeymoon in my own backyard. —  ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
  • Mohammad said that the ink of a scribe is more holy than the blood of a martyr, and, a thinking man can do more in an hour than 700 worshipers. —  legitgov
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. 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.

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  1. = Old French escrire, French écrire = Spanish escribir = Portuguese escrever = Italian scrivere = Old High German scriban, Middle High German schrīben, German schreiben = Middle Low German schrīven = Dutch schrijven = OFries. skrīva = Old Saxon scrībhan, write, = Icelandic skrifa (not *skrīfa), write, scratch, embroider, paint, = Swedish skrifva = Danish skrive, write (in OFries. skrīva, and Anglo-Saxon scrifan, impose a penance, shrive); = Gaelic sgriob, sgriobh, write, scratch, scrape, comb, curry, etc.; from Latin scrībere, past participle scriptus, write, draw (or otherwise make letters, lines, figures, etc.), write, compose, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy, etc.; orig. ‘scratch’; prob. akin to scrobis, scrobs, a ditch, trench, grave, to scalpere, cut, to sculpere, cut, carve, grave, etc.: see screw, scalp, sculp, etc. Connection with Greek γράφειν, write, and with Anglo-Saxon grafan, English grave, is not proved: see grave. The Teutonic forms were from the L. at a very early period, having the strong inflection; they appear to have existed earlier in a different sense, for which see shrive, shrift. For the native Teutonic word for ‘write,’ see write. The verb scribe in English is later than the noun, on which it in part depends: see scribe, n. From the L. scribere are also ult. English scribble, script, script, scripture, scriven, scrivener, ascribe, describe, inscribe, etc., conscript, manuscript, transcript, etc., ascription, conscription, description, etc.
  2. from Middle English scribe, from Old French (and F.) scribe = Spanish Portuguese escriba = Italian scriba, from Latin scriba, a writer, scribe, from scribere, write: see scribe, v. In def. 4 the noun is of modern English origin, from the verb.
 

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