Scrivener

Word SCRIVENER
Character 9
Hyphenation scrive ner
Pronunciations /ˈskɹɪvnə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Scrivener"

What do we mean by scrivener?

A professional copyist; a scribe. noun

One who drafts legal instruments such as contracts and wills. noun

A writer: especially, a public writer; a notary; specifically, one whose occupation is the drawing of contracts or other writings. noun

One whose business it is to receive money and place it out at interest, and supply those who want to raise money on security; a money-broker; a financial agent. noun

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. noun

One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker. noun

A writing master. noun

See Writer's cramp, under Writer. noun

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. noun

One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker. noun

A writing master. noun

Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts noun

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.

One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.

A writing master.

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The word "scrivener" in example sentences

Yesterday's term was scrivener, which is defined as: ❋ Unknown (2006)

A scrivener is a public copyist, but that noun has fallen into disuse except among notaries public; a scribe, once “a copyist of biblical texts,” is now used jocularly to mean “journalist,” and a scribbler is a put-down of a writer. ❋ William Safire (2003)

John Milton was the son of a London scrivener, that is, a kind of lawyer. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He was by business what was then called a scrivener, a term which has received judicial interpretation, and imported a person who arranged loans on mortgage, receiving a commission for so doing. ❋ Augustine Birrell (1891)

A scrivener was a kind of cross between an attorney and a law stationer, whose principal business was the preparation of deeds, “to be well and truly done after my learning, skill, and science,” and with due regard to the interests of more exalted personages. ❋ Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 (1890)

A scrivener was a kind of cross between an attorney and a law stationer, whose principal business was the preparation of deeds, "to be well and truly done after my learning, skill, and science," and with due regard to the interests of more exalted personages. ❋ Richard Garnett (1870)

What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. ❋ Unknown (1856)

I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

a scrivener, that is, as something like a modern solicitor, and prospered so much that by 1632 he was able to retire and live in the country. ❋ John Cann Bailey (1897)

Originally the word scribe meant "scrivener"; but rapidly it was accepted as a matter of course that the scribe who copies the Law knows the Law best, and is its most qualified expounder: accordingly the word came to mean more than it implies etymologically. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Writing, similarly, was taught by dictation and practice, and the art of the "scrivener," as the writing master was called, was one thought to be difficult to learn. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

He, knowing M. Ferrand only by reputation, expected to find in him a kind of scrivener, good-natured or ridiculous, the viscount figuring to himself always that men of proverbial probity must be simpletons. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)

His immediate descent was humble; for his father, though on one particular occasion civilly described as a "scrivener," was in reality a domestic servant to Mr. Salt -- a bencher (and therefore a barrister of some standing) in the Inner Temple. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Do we have any idea as to whether the four-page version of the Constitution that is in the Archives actually consumed only four pages in its exposition, or were mistakes made that required the scrivener to start a page over? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Do we have any idea as to whether the four-page version of the Constitution that is in the Archives actually consumed only four pages in its exposition, or were mistakes made that required the scrivener to start a pageover? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I found myself rooting for Tamara to reconnect in the deepest way with handsome Andy, her childhood friend — Luke Evans makes him a son of the soil who would have had Hardy's vote — and I was shocked by her home-wrecking exploits with a fatuous scrivener, though her heedlessness is exactly the point. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)

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