exscribe

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verb

To copy down onto paper; to transcribe.

OriginLatin excribere →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

verbexscribe (third-person singular simple present exscribes, present participle exscribing, simple past and past participle exscribed)

present singular third person exscribes · participle present exscribing · participle past exscribed · past exscribed

  1. obsoleteTo copy down onto paper; 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.

Origin

  1. Latinexcribere
  2. Englishexscribe

Borrowed from Latin excribere; ex (“out, from”) + scribere (“to write”).

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Chicago

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