单词 | scrivein |
释义 | † scriveinn. Obsolete. A scribe, copyist, or clerk; = scrivener n. 1a.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > professional writer writereOE bookerOE markerOE scrivein?1208 scrivener1218 scrieverc1425 pen-clerk?c1430 scribe1435 scrivan1511 penman1552 scrivano1581 feather-driver1593 scriptora1600 Khoja1625 quill man1648 conicopoly1680 quill-driver1700 escrivain1744 sirkar1828 penworker1876 ?1208–13 in Liber Feodorum (1920) I. 626 Ricardus le Scrivein. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 44 Þise scriueyns þet sseweþ guode lettre ate ginnynge, and efterward makeþ wycked. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xliv. 2 (MED) My tunge is penne of þe scriuayn swiflich wrytand. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 119 Yis gylde schal hawe..to screweynys. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 8092 (MED) Yn þe worlde ys none so gode skryueyne..Ne myȝt telle þe sorow..þat þe preste shal drye, [etc.]. a1456 (c1385) G. Chaucer Words unto Adam (Trin. Cambr.) (1878) l. 1 Adam scryveyne if euer it þee byfalle Boece or Troylus for to wryten nuwe. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 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.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1208 |
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