scrivenv.

1680 [implied in: W. Petyt Britannia Languens viii. 128 Multitudes of those that want Imployments..will naturally and inevitably throng themselves into the like, viz. importing Merchandise, Retayling, Shop-keeping, the Law,..Offices, Scrivening, Solliciting, and Physick. (at scrivening n.)].

1820 Belles-lettres Repository Nov. 19/1 A little law is all I know, that I picked up when I scrivened for Capias Quill.

1839 C. G. F. Gore Courtier iii The attorney's clerks..were scrivening away in Mr. Heneage's justice-room.

1906 R. S. Holland Count at Harvard vii. 66 The hero..sat industriously scrivening in the corner.

1924 Chicago Hist. Soc. Bull Oct. 3/1 Keep the machines grinding, the housewives scrubbing, the clerks scrivening.

2011 D. Orozco Orientation 140 The lives of clerks long gone who scrivened day after day in witness to the transactions of others long gone.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 311 Here's a Mortgage scrivened up to ten Skins of Parchment; and the King's Attorney General is content with six Lines.

1829 N.Y. Mirror 6 June 380/1 I have determined, before I sleep, to scriven another sheetful for your peculiar edification.

1896 B. F. Burnham Leading in Law & Curious in Court xxxi. 1315 An owergude clergyman scrivening your will and making himself your executor, may possibly overdo the consideration of his own worldly interests.

1944 W. Stevens in Kenyon Rev. 6 503 This is the thesis scrivened in delight.

1977 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 10 Aug. 11 a/6 The fetching English star faces the daily dilemma of what details to scriven and what to omit from her rollicking adventures.

1994 Hastings Law Jrnl. 45 213 From Bracton's De Legibus, scrivened in the thirteenth century, to Page on Wills, typed in the twentieth, [etc.].

2005 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 3 Oct. 18 Policy papers that the partisans of regime change feverishly scrivened during the Clinton years.