inscriptionist

plural inscriptionists

1. nonstandarduncommonespecially non-native speakers' EnglishOne who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.

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   The Egyptians were indeed indefatigable architects, sculptors, painters, hieroglyphists, and inscriptionists[…]

   1841, The Christian observer, page 369

   Rothko more than any artist I have known succumbed to the lure of light, light that, as the Byzantine inscriptionist said, can be contained but never captured really[…]

   1984, Bonnie Clearwater, Mark Rothko, works on paper

   But it also reminds us from the beginning that words are the physical materials of this poet's work, as they are the materials for the inscriptionist.

   1994, Kathleen Henderson Staudt, At the turn of a civilization: David Jones and modern poetics, page 72

   Synonyms: scribe