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▪ I. scriptor1 rare.|ˈskrɪptə(r)|
Also 6 -our.
[a. L. scriptor, agent-n. f. scrībĕre to write. Cf. OF. escriptor, scripteur.]
A writer, a scribe.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 306 Tacitus, The Roman scriptour. 1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art I. p. clxxiii, No art was allowed there except that of the scriptor.
▪ II. scriptor2 Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 8 -ure, -ore.
[? Etymologizing refashioning of scritoire, scrutoire.]
A writing-desk, escritoire.
1683J. Locke Let. 26 Aug. (1976) II. 602, I think you were best lock my book of accounts up in my scriptor when you go out of town. 1716in J. O. Payne Engl. Cath. (1889) 84 Several of the goods were very good, and particularly a scriptore. 1724Let. to W. Woods Swift's Wks. (1824) VII. 76 Every monied man, instead of a scriptore, or an iron chest,..must have a warehouse. 1732in W. Macgill Old. Ross-sh. (1909) 137 A Scripture [escritoire]. 1752Ibid. 140 Old wainscot Scriptore. 1955R. Fastnedge Eng. Furniture Styles iii. 87 Small walnut and marquetry fall-front writing cabinets..continued to enjoy popularity... These pieces..were then [c 1700] called ‘scriptors’, or ‘scrutoirs’. 1965Listener 22 Apr. 604/1, I would like to take as the focal object a charming and famous scriptor or writing desk from Ham House. |