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单词 text-writer
释义

text-writern.

/ˈtɛkstˌrʌɪtə/
Forms: see text n.1 and writer n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: text n.1, writer n.
Etymology: < text n.1 + writer n.
1. A professional writer of text-hand, before the introduction of printing; later, an engrosser of legal documents. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > professional writer > types of
text-writer1463
scribelet1599
engrosser1606
under-scribe1612
answer-jobber1712
cocket writer1743
figure-servant1850
texter1884
1463 Canterb. Corporation Acc. (MS.) Thomas Howlet, textwriter, alias scrivener.
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 150 Sub custodia scriptoris textwryter commorantis apud Seynt Mary Strond.
1491 in York Myst. Introd. 39 Tixt-wryters, luminers, noters, turners, and florischers.
2. Law. An author of a legal textbook.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > book treating of law > writer
nomographer1716
institutionalist1827
text-writera1832
a1832 A. Polson Law Nations in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 720/1 Text-writers of authority, an authority which they obtain whenever they record the usages and practice of nations..in a spirit of impartiality.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. ix. 188 The language of text-writers upon the right of the Lords to reject money bills is uniform.
1902 Sir E. E. Kekewich in Law Times Rep. 86 346/2 In dealing with a question of this kind, one is thrown back on maxims and principles, and the exposition of them by text-writers is important.
1902 J. Joyce in Law Times Rep. 86 352/1 A dictum which..is copied in the text~books, and is considered by the text-writers to be law.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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