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transcriptive, a.|trɑːnˈskrɪptɪv, træn-|
[f. as prec. + -ive; cf. descriptive, etc.]
1. Having the quality or habit of transcribing; given, devoted, or tending to transcription.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 29 Although excellent and usefull Authors, yet being either transcriptive, or following the common relations of things, their accounts are not to be swallowed at large. Ibid. 33 He is to be embraced..as a transcriptive relator. 1823Byron Let. in Eng. Stud. (1897) XXXIII. 453, I sent to Mrs. S― a few Scenes more of the drama begun for her transcriptive leisure. 1888Cave Inspir. O. Test. viii. 455 Transcriptive Inspiration..moves the writers to write.
2. Rom. Law. Transferring obligation: cf. transcription 4.
1875Poste Gaius iii. §131. 11 Transcriptive entries differ from mere entries of a person as debtor to cash.
Hence tranˈscriptively adv. rare, in a transcriptive manner; by way of transcription.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. vi. 21 Authors write often dubiously... Not a few transcriptively,..meerely transcribing almost all they have written. |