transcribblev.
rare.
transitive. To transcribe carelessly or hastily.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > manner of writing > copying or transcribing > copy or transcribe [verb (transitive)] > transcribe hastily or carelessly
transcribble1751
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little (ed. 2) ii. xii. 269 He..once in a quarter of a year, took the pains to transcribble a sermon out of various authors.
Derivatives
tranˈscribbler n. a careless or hasty transcriber.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > copyist > careless
transcribbler1746
1746 T. Gray Let. 11 Sept. in Corr. (1971) I. 241 He [Aristotle] has suffer'd vastly by the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.
1821 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Sept. (1978) VIII. 215 Such licentiousness of Verb and Noun as may tend to ‘disparage my parts of speech’ by the carelessness of the transcribblers.
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