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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer; scribe.
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Examples
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There was a notary, sometimes called the scriptor curie Vasconie, who was the head of the seneschals secretariat and "keeper of the rolls and papers of his sénéchaussée," but Chaplais does not describe an enrollment process for the seneschals business.
The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320 Jay Lathen Boehm 1992
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Indeed, the "modern writer" - or "scriptor" as Barthes calls him - can only mimic "a gesture forever anterior, never original" by recombining what has already been written.
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Shelley's speaker as scriptor hovers, in other words, on the very cusp of wording, between an eruptive "O (h)" and the transitional "O-W" on its way to the widened diphthong of "thou."
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The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump ... caveat scriptor?
The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump...caveat scriptor? 2008
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The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump ... caveat scriptor?
The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump...caveat scriptor? 2008
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Caveat scriptor ... storm_grant has a link to the query project: Fourteen writers share queries that got them an editor or agent.
September 12th, 2008 fastfwd 2008
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The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump ... caveat scriptor?
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Miller, one of the mainstays of my Wild Cards series, and a talented writer and comic scriptor in his own right.
Home from WFC grrm 2007
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On Monday he passed these to the FBI. Later in the week the researcher, along with Rishi Khan, a 19-year-old University of Delaware undergrad, figured out that the Melissa author started off with Shiver, the handiwork of a scriptor known as ALT-F11 (proof that virus writers are weirdos: they name themselves after function keys).
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"I love it to write such code ... to see them survive in the wild is kind of nice also!" writes "Spooky," a 17-year-old scriptor and founder of the Codebreakers virus crew.
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She is, in literary theorist Roland Barthes’ terms, a ‘scriptor’ rather than sole creator of each garment, allowing the meaning of the garment to be ‘externally written’.
Linguistic Determinism | Vestoj Barbara Brownie 2023
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