OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17217

scrivener

/ˈskɹɪvnə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amanuense • escribano
A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
Below this, sat two scrivener monks at two little desks, on which were scrolls of parchment and ink-horns and goose-quill pens.
Scrivener (enters with a paper in hand):Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed That is may be today read o'er in Paul's. And mark…
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