Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A copier; a copyist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A copier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
copier .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now this morning comes a second Letter from Garcin de Tassy saying that his first note about Omar Khayyam was 'in haste': that he has read some of the Tetrastichs which he finds not very difficult; some difficulties which are probably errors of the 'copist'; and he proposes his writing an Article in the Journal Asiatique on it in which he will 'honourably mention' E.B. C. and E.F. G.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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Managing a project according to quality procedures can become tortuous and can make you feel like a copist monk of the middle ages.
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The copist used rows of the letter "x" to indicate material that he did not copy from the letter book, and he headed this letter, "Extract of a letter to Micajah & Richard Perry."
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah and Richard Perry, 1717 October 3 1717
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The copist used rows of the letter "x" to indicate material that he did not copy from the letter book.
Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, 1717 August 3 1717
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The copist used rows of the letter "x" to indicate material that he did not copy from the letter book.
Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, 1717 September 16 1717
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The copist used rows of the letter "x" to indicate material that he did not copy from the letter book.
Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Tucker, 1717 September 16 1717
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It’s very obvious that Obama is shameless, mean and he’s a copist.
Clinton Camp: Obama Is Mean (and He’s a Copycat, Too) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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