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Exscribe vs Escribe - What's the difference?

exscribe | escribe |

As verbs the difference between exscribe and escribe

is that exscribe is (obsolete) to copy; to transcribe while escribe is (geometry) to draw outside of; used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

exscribe

English

Verb

(exscrib)
  • (obsolete) To copy; to transcribe.
  • * 1640-41, Ben Jonson, A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth ,
    • I that have been a lover, and could show it/ Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb/ Since I exscribe your sonnets, am become/ A better lover, and much better poet.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    escribe

    English

    Verb

    (escrib)
  • (geometry) To draw outside of; used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.
    • (Webster 1913) ----