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Public clerk
Answer for the clue "Public clerk ", 6 letters:
scribe
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Word definitions for scribe in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scribe \Scribe\ (skr[imac]b), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. ska`rifos a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. Ascribe , Describe , Script , Scrivener , Scrutoire .] One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to write," mid-15c., from Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)).
Usage examples of scribe.
It was precisely their foreign, un-Muscovite spirit that attracted the young boyars and scribes to these stories.
I ever tell you how interested the scribes who wrote the bestiaries were in the, uh, mating habits of the various animals?
There have my scribe draw up a prayer to the Pharaoh, craving for me the mastership over the Israelite, Rachel,--for household service.
Innel the scribe easily enough, after a little conversation I decided could trust him with a letter for Messire, to be sent onto Lord Adrin with a request that he forward it through the Imperial Despatch.
Brother Rupert had been chaplain, scribe, and administrating secretary to the recently deceased Felicia, Prioress of Tyndal.
Greek and Latin scribes were known to recycle parchment whenever they ran short, erasing one text by soaking the leaves in milk and then scrubbing at the ink with a pumice-stone before reinscribing the surface, now blank, with a new one, so that one text lay dormant and hidden between the lines of another.
The sacrist whispered furtively to the chief scribe, and the cellarer rubbed his hands together nervously while the prior plucked at his keys.
I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the Caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the City of Tharna in the past months, a short history of events which I thought should be recorded.
It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar, nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events at Tharna.
Eventually a kind of professional scribal class came to be a part of the Christian intellectual landscape, and with the advent of professional scribes came more controlled copying practices, in which mistakes were made much less frequently.
It also entails seeing how that text came to be modified over time, both through scribal slips and as scribes made deliberate modifications.
Trepanation would have been a good idea for the normally pre scribed purposes.
Having hitherto scribed alone, I was used to just the scratching of a pen.
No man had scribed this message - its language was never born of earth.
The family being in need of pfennigs, he could, she said, come scribing on Sundays and never mind what was said against it by priests.