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  • noun Plural form of copyist.

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Examples

  • * Ultimately, petitioners wish to displace Congress's preference for copyright-based dissemination of works during the CTEA's prescribed proprietary term, and instead to allow indiscriminate exploitation by public domain copyists like petitioners.

    Boing Boing: August 4, 2002 - August 10, 2002 Archives 2002

  • This is a companion book to ANDRÉS Y LOS COPISTAS, our book from last year about a class visit to the Prado, and a child who asks why the copyists are allowed to make copies of famous works of art but if he copies from a classmate's exam it's "cheating" ...

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2008

  • While their monstrously popular TV version spawned countless imitators, none of their copyists have followed them to the big screen.

    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011

  • And nothing can halt that -- any more than medieval copyists and aficionados of hand-made parchment Bibles could in Gutenberg's day.

    Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • Altogether, there are four copyists before easels in the room, apparently at work on the major subjects of landscape, history, figure and miniature portrait painting.

    Ushering the Old Masters Into the New World John Wilmerding 2011

  • And nothing can halt that -- any more than medieval copyists and aficionados of hand-made parchment Bibles could in Gutenberg's day.

    Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • Misquoting Jesus is a well-written, easy to read look at some of the problems caused by copyists and scribes in the distribution of the New Testament.

    Book Review: Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Before then, we had woodcuts and copyists, laboriously transcribing the prophets, the words of the Almighty, the words about the Almighty, and almighty words, mostly onto parchment ...

    Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • Misquoting Jesus is a well-written, easy to read look at some of the problems caused by copyists and scribes in the distribution of the New Testament.

    2009 June | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Before then, we had woodcuts and copyists, laboriously transcribing the prophets, the words of the Almighty, the words about the Almighty, and almighty words, mostly onto parchment ...

    Nigel Hamilton: Apocalypse in Print Nigel Hamilton 2010

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