释义 |
tranˈscribble, v. rare. [f. trans- + scribble v., after transcribe.] trans. To transcribe carelessly or hastily. So tranˈscribbler, a careless or hasty transcriber.
1746Gray Let. to Wharton in W. Mason Mem. (1807) II. 37 He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. 1750Coventry Pompey Litt. ii. xii, He..once in a quarter of a year, took the pains to transcribble a sermon out of various authors. 1821Byron Let. to Moore 19 Sept., Such licentiousness of Verb and Noun as may tend to ‘disparage my parts of speech’ by the carelessness of the transcribblers. |