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Definitions

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession
2. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
3. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession
4. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ
5. A journalist
6. A journalist.
   informal
7. A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people
8. A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
   archaic
9. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber
10. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

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Examples

“[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March⟳ 128 AD.”

“The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read⟳.”

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