English
Noun
en-noun
- A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
- obsolete One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
- A writing master.
Quotations
"Scrivener (enters with a paper in hand):
Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
Which in a set hand fairly in engrossed
That is may be today read o'ver in Paul's.
And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
Eleven hours I have spent to write it over..."
-Shakespeare's Richard III 3.6
See also
notary
scribe
tabellion
References
R:Century 1911
R:Webster 1913
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