scriven

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  1. A writer; a notary. Thise scriueyns. … sseweth guode lettre ate ginnynge, and efterward maketh wycked. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 44.
  2. To write; especially, to write with the expansive wordiness and repetitions characteristic of scriveners or lawyers. Here's a mortgage scrivened up to ten skins of parchment, and the king's attorney general is content with six lines. Roger North, Lord Guilford, II. 302. (Dairies.)

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  • Those scriven leaves of thine, renowned soul —  On the Nature of Things
  • Blue as lupin or larkspur, or cornflower -- aye, and even so blue art thou, my scriven, to think how far the written page falls short of the bright ecstasy of thy dream! —  Mince Pie
 

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  1. from Middle English *scriven, scrivein, from Old French escrivain, French écrivain = Spanish escribano = Portuguese escrivão = Italian scrivano, from Middle Latin scribanus, a writer, notary, clerk (cf. Latin scriba, a scribe), from Latin scribere, write: see scribe. Hence scrivener. The word scriven survives in the surname Scriven.
  2. from scriven, n.; or from scrivener, regarded as formed with suffix -erfrom a verb: see scrivener.
 

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