(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.
Tribe
Definition:
(n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
(n.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
(n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
(n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
(n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
(v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes.
Example Sentences:
(1) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(2) G6PD Tacoma-like may be common in some African tribes.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(4) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
(5) Additional allotype information is presented for five previously reported South American tribes (Cayapo, Piaroa, Trio, Xavante and Yanomama).
(6) In aqueous solution, N-substituted isoxazolin-5-one derivatives, which occur in high amounts in seedlings of the tribe Vicieae, can be shown to undergo a proton exchange at C-4, indicative of their aromatic character.
(7) The cola accuminata is more popular in the Ibo and Igedde tribes of the Eastern and Middle Belt regions respectively in Nigeria, while cola nitida is preferred by the Hausa-Fulani tribes of the Northern part of Nigeria.
(8) No outstandingly high value for gametic association between the alleles of the 2 HL-A series was observed, but haplotypes formed by antigens with dissimilar frequencies in Caucasoids, Negroids and American Indian tribes have shown statistically significant D values.
(9) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(10) The confederation is grouped around 10 tribes across the north.
(11) The Tribe triumphed in Critics' Week, while Love at First Fight won the top gong at the Directors' Fortnight.
(12) The zoologist Rob Wiliams, who is one of the few people to have seen members of the uncontacted tribes, says franker discussions with and about indigenous people forced into transition are vital because once tribes have access to roads, guns and healthcare, their numbers grow rapidly and so does their impact on other species.
(13) Gangs of armed men ransacked and burned homes of government supporters and residents from tribes sympathetic to the government.
(14) Data are presented on electrophoretic variants of 25 polypeptides found in the blood serum and erythrocytes, in 812 individuals from three Amerindian tribes, the Pano, the Baniwa, and the Kanamari.
(15) I also can't tell you that my tribe will accept you.
(16) The Benin-type chromosome was also found among Algerian and Sicilian sickle-cell patients, whereas the Indian-type chromosome was observed in two geographically distant tribes, illustrating the spread of these sickle-cell genes.
(17) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
(18) In chronic traumatic inflammations of bones with active stomias where the inflammatory process lasted many weeks, and from the purulent matter two or more tribes with various sensitiveness to antibiotics, associated treatment was also used with application of large doses cephalosporin antibiotics of Glaxo-Zinacef of Fortum firms.
(19) Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and member of the Mdewakanton Dakota and Dine tribes, said he had expected Trump to support the pipeline, but did not imagine it would happen within days of the administration.
(20) Libyans have a saying: "Within Libya it is region against region, within regions, tribe against tribe, within tribes, family against family."