Meanings
adjectivescripturient (comparative more scripturient, superlative most scripturient)
comparative more scripturient · superlative most scripturient
- rareInclined to write a great deal.
There is a remarkable scripturient person, who keeps correspondence with your adversaries here, as appears by what is published, who to gratify his paymasters, might easily do you the unkindnesse, but this is onely my conjecture at a distance.
1706 [1890], Edward Hayes Plumptre, “Letter LXXI To Dr. Smith”, in The Life of Thomas Ken: Bishop of Bath and Wells
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