Scribed vs Ascribed - What's the difference?
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(scribe)
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
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# A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession(w).
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
A writer, especially a journalist.
To write.
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
To record.
To write or draw with a scribe.
(carpentry) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.; so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
(ascribe)
To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
As verbs the difference between scribed and ascribed
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(head)scribe
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(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
Synonyms
* amanuensis * scrivener * tabellionDerived terms
* scribal *Verb
(scrib)- (Spenser)
See also
* notaryExternal links
* * ----ascribed
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(head)Anagrams
*ascribe
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(ascrib)- One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
- It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.