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† scrivein, -eyn Obs.
Also 4 -ayn, scryvane, -ein, -eyne, screweyny, 4–5 scry-, 5 skry-, skreveyn.
[Aphetic a. OF. escrivain, -ein, etc. (mod.F. écrivain): see escrivain.]
= scrivener 1.
a1300E.E. Psalter xliv. [xlv.] 2 My tunge is penne of þe scriuayn swiflich wrytand. 1340Ayenb. 44 þise scriueyns þet sseweþ guode lettre ate ginnynge and efterward makeþ wycked. c1374Chaucer To Scriv. 1 Adam scryveyne if euer it þee byfalle Boece or Troylus for to wryten nuwe. 1389Eng. Gilds 119 Yis gylde schal hawe..to screweynys. Ibid., And if ony of hem for-sake hys office,..eyther screweyny [schal payn] a qwarter of wax. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 106 Al-so it fallys þat þou chese of wyse men & of Skreueyns, sweche þat hauyn perfeccion of enournede eloquence, & of sotyll record; And right as þe Skryueyn ys enterpretour of þy wyl [etc.]. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas ii. xv. (1494) h j b, Of a scryueyn Bochas maketh mencion. |