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scribal

adjective as in clerical

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Surely in the scribal play illustrated in Plate V, I is acting more like a fellow-worker than the author of the work.

The symbol used after q as a scribal abbreviation in Latin has been represented by ȝ.

On occasion, the Latin passages employ a scribal abbreviation 'q;' for 'qus', which has been retained.

This accounts for one or two scribal errors, which are, however, easily detected and readily corrected.

It has been pointed out that in this case we probably have a scribal error of Swedes for Slavs.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scribal, such as: accounting, bookkeeping, clerkish, clerkly, office, and stenographic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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