Crossword clues for amanuensis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amanuensis \A*man`u*en"sis\, n.; pl. Amanuenses. [L., fr. a, ab + manus hand.] A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who takes dictation," 1610s, from Latin amanuensis "adjective used as a noun," from servus a manu "secretary," literally "servant from the hand," from a "from" + manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts. 2 A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.
WordNet
n. someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) [syn: stenographer, shorthand typist]
[also: amanuenses (pl)]
Wikipedia
An amanuensis is a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another, and also refers to a person who signs a document on behalf of another under the latter's authority.
Usage examples of "amanuensis".
How many scriveners and amanuenses had toiled in service to the Vicars of Christ, their secretariats, councils, and tribunals?
The contraction used by the early amanuenses for Praefecto Praetorio has been misunderstood by their successors, and consequently many MSS.
The professors cultivate social and even intimate relations with the undergraduates, nor do they consider it beneath their dignity to invite them frequently to their homes, draw out their minds by discussing some important point, loan them books or periodicals, suggest subjects for essays or books, employ their service as amanuenses, and recommend them in due time for proper vacancies.
If I had been doing my work in the city, he could have found me stenographers, amanuenses, or type-writers by the hundred.
I am sure, from my own experience, that a lady amanuensis would suit your purpose much better than a man: she would be more patient, more willing to accommodate herself to your moods, in every way more available.
I hoped nothing would occur to retard the progress of the work, and that the present arrangement might continue without changes of any kind, because I knew that when you were dictating your mind was completely absorbed by your mental labors, and that any alteration in your hours of work, or the necessity of explaining your methods to a new amanuensis, annoyed and impeded you.
I allowed myself to be so disturbed by the conduct of an amanuensis, paid by the day, and, moreover, a member of a religious order.
She informed me that it had been decided that the sister of the House of Martha who had been acting as my amanuensis should not continue in that position, but should now devote herself to another class of work.
I should have allowed her to become your amanuensis, but this whole affair is a very peculiar one.
It contained two live individuals: Amanuensis and Detective Ratt - the former in control of the latter.
His amanuensis found it impossible to keep up with him, and therefore profited by a hint from one of us, and instead of writing, merely moved his pen rapidly over the paper, scrawling all sorts of ragged lines and figures to resemble writing!
M had not, however, yet done with his amanuensis, but put his services in requisition in quite another capacity--that of reader.
I believe it to have been surreptitiously inserted by your amanuensis when your back was turned.
Reply, and your amanuensis call me all those hard names which the magazines dislike so.
He said that men cured in this way, and enabled to discard the grape system, never afterward got over the habit of talking as if they were dictating to a slow amanuensis, because they always made a pause between each two words while they sucked the substance out of an imaginary grape.