(n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
(n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
(v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
(v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
(v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
(v. i.) To make a mark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scribes wrote his words on their tablets of metal and light, to be saved for the ages.
(2) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
(3) The resulting outline scribed from the orifices tended to be centered mesiodistally on the crown of each group and did not extend to the marginal ridges.
(4) A case of life threatening lead poisoning was diagnosed clinically in a Jewish scribe and verified by appropriate laboratory studies.
(5) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
(6) When I was translating his novel Broken Glass – a novel with no full stops, no sentences, in which a variety of characters relate their stories to a scribe in a downtown bar – I kept thinking of the African voices I heard around me in London.
(7) It's back to the battle between scribes and movable type.
(8) Following any assessment, results are literally shouted across the fence to a scribe who copies them on to a duplicate record sheet in conditions of safety.
(9) I would expect that an organisation so largely composed of journalists might more greatly value the contributions of fellow scribes.
(10) The special ink used by the scribe was found to contain lead in appreciable amounts.
(11) Eleven more asymptomatic subjects, both scribes and manufacturers of the ink, were studied and five were found to have subclinical lead overload.
(12) For scribes copied and recopied books in this city that loved leaning, creating a legacy of works transcribed in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as earlier.
(13) The scribes came to Him and they asked him for His words.
(14) Robert Newton Oldham • "Ignore the groans of vested interests" blusters David Cameron's ex-scribe Ian Birrell.
(15) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
(16) Takrit scribes in Cairo – through which the miles-long camel caravan of the king of the vast Mali Empire passed – said his wealth and generosity was unlike any they had seen.
(17) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
(18) Molecular sieve chromatography and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation demonstrated that the chemotactic factor was a relatively low molecular weight product (15,000-30,000) and as such different from previously scribed C' system-derived chemotactic factors.
(19) It’s not hard to see what inspired Viking scribes: the island has pockets filled with silences that feel intensely charged.
(20) The historian John Man puts the Gutenberg revolution like this : "Suddenly, in a historical eye-blink, scribes were redundant.
Scribed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Scribe
Example Sentences:
(1) The scribes wrote his words on their tablets of metal and light, to be saved for the ages.
(2) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
(3) The resulting outline scribed from the orifices tended to be centered mesiodistally on the crown of each group and did not extend to the marginal ridges.
(4) A case of life threatening lead poisoning was diagnosed clinically in a Jewish scribe and verified by appropriate laboratory studies.
(5) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
(6) When I was translating his novel Broken Glass – a novel with no full stops, no sentences, in which a variety of characters relate their stories to a scribe in a downtown bar – I kept thinking of the African voices I heard around me in London.
(7) It's back to the battle between scribes and movable type.
(8) Following any assessment, results are literally shouted across the fence to a scribe who copies them on to a duplicate record sheet in conditions of safety.
(9) I would expect that an organisation so largely composed of journalists might more greatly value the contributions of fellow scribes.
(10) The special ink used by the scribe was found to contain lead in appreciable amounts.
(11) Eleven more asymptomatic subjects, both scribes and manufacturers of the ink, were studied and five were found to have subclinical lead overload.
(12) For scribes copied and recopied books in this city that loved leaning, creating a legacy of works transcribed in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as earlier.
(13) The scribes came to Him and they asked him for His words.
(14) Robert Newton Oldham • "Ignore the groans of vested interests" blusters David Cameron's ex-scribe Ian Birrell.
(15) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
(16) Takrit scribes in Cairo – through which the miles-long camel caravan of the king of the vast Mali Empire passed – said his wealth and generosity was unlike any they had seen.
(17) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
(18) Molecular sieve chromatography and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation demonstrated that the chemotactic factor was a relatively low molecular weight product (15,000-30,000) and as such different from previously scribed C' system-derived chemotactic factors.
(19) It’s not hard to see what inspired Viking scribes: the island has pockets filled with silences that feel intensely charged.
(20) The historian John Man puts the Gutenberg revolution like this : "Suddenly, in a historical eye-blink, scribes were redundant.