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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
scrivener
    n 1: someone employed to make written copies of documents and
         manuscripts [syn: copyist, scribe, scrivener]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scrivener \Scrive"ner\ (? or ?), n. [From older scrivein, OF.
   escrivain, F. ['e]crivain, LL. scribanus, from L. scribere to
   write. See Scribe.]
   1. A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw
      contracts or prepare writings. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            The writer better scrivener than clerk. --Fuller.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. One whose business is to place money at interest; a
      broker. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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   3. A writing master. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
      [1913 Webster]

   Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SCRIVENER. A person whose, business it is to write deeds and other 
instruments for others; a conveyancer. 
     2. Money scriveners are those who are engaged in procuring money to be 
lent on mortgages and other securities, and lending such money accordingly. 
They act also as agents for the purchase and sale of real estates. 
     3. To be considered a money scrivener, a person must be concerned in 
carrying on the trade or profession as a means of making a livelihood. He 
must in the course of his occupation receive other men's moneys into his 
trust and custody, to lay out for them as occasion offers. 3 Camp. R. 538; 2 
Esp. Cas. 555. 



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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accountant, amanuensis, archivist, bookkeeper, calligrapher, chirographer, clerk, copier, copyist, documentalist, engraver, filing clerk, ink spiller, inkslinger, letterer, librarian, marker, notary, notary public, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, prothonotary, record clerk, recorder, recording secretary, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribbler, scribe, secretary, stenographer, stonecutter, timekeeper, transcriber, word-slinger, writer
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