(n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
(n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
(n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
(n.) An assistant in a shop or store.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(2) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
(3) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(4) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
(5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
(6) present the purposes and the methods of an epidemiological study on coronary risk factors in selected bank-clerks of Parma, in view to correlate the dietary factors, possible methabolic alterations, psychical behaviour, social and environmental position and coronary risk evaluated by electrocardiographic stress test.
(7) General health was good in both vocational groups and isometric strength for the welders was intermediate between that of office clerks (who had lower strength) and that of fishermen (who had higher strength, as disclosed in a previous investigation).
(8) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
(9) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
(10) You can feel it has strengthened the Taliban.” One man who saw what happened inside the US base is a former clerk at the local office of the ministry of information and culture named Qandi, who said he was detained and tortured for 45 days in 2012 before being transferred to the detention facility at Bagram airbase.
(11) Similarities and discrepancies in the way that evaluators viewed clerks were found.
(12) At the same time a comparable control group, i.e., 19 workers of the same chemical plant but without any direct occupational nickel exposure (clerks, service men, etc.
(13) In Kentucky , county clerks issue marriage licenses, and someone else must “solemnize” the marriage.
(14) A 26-year-old female clerk without previous heart disease ingested with suicidal intensions antihistaminic drugs--H1 blockers, astemizole (a total of 700 mg) and terfenadine (a total of 900-1200 mg).
(15) As we go along all these kinks will be ironed out.” Under Ghanaian law, farmers are only allowed to sell their beans to purchasing clerks who act as intermediaries between them and Cocobod.
(16) But because Piazza didn't issue a stay, Arkansas' 75 county clerks were left to decide for themselves whether to grant marriage licenses.
(17) In all study villages, the clerk in each health station maintained a regular count of the number of preschool children who had died within the preceding week.
(18) Their alcohol consumption, as obtained by interview was found to be higher among males than among females, among workers than among managers, executives, and clerks.
(19) During a second series of experiments, urine mutagenicity of 17 office clerks was also investigated.
(20) "We don't sell Japanese books," said a shop clerk, adding, "I don't know much about the reason, but perhaps it is because China-Japan relations are not good."
Copyist
Definition:
(n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
Example Sentences:
(1) First of all, amid the chaos Degas found endless repetition of standard movements and poses, providing plenty of opportunities for the relentless copyist, the champion draughtsman, to get some daring and implausible postures absolutely convincing and right, creating a series of interior landscapes accessible without having to go outdoors.
(2) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
(3) At moments, she sounds like an advertising copyist for Mills & Boon.
(4) Apple can portray it as a looter of intellectual property, a copyist, an unimaginative follower.
(5) Sniffin' Glue wasn't the first fanzine – Punk (which famously coined the genre's moniker) started self-publishing in New York six months earlier – but its primitive Xerox'n'Sellotape aesthetic was the perfect medium to capture British punk's early energy, and to inspire a generation of copyists.
(6) They became skilled calligraphers and, hailing from far and wide, they would work as copyists to pay for their digs.
(7) Sherman had started out painting, and is still a good copyist.
(8) This isn’t globalisation: this is Big Finance and its copyists, trampling over workers, families, communities.
(9) On that longest and most crowded of streets there were dozens of dealers, auction houses, restorers and copyists, art suppliers, exhibition halls and galleries.