单词 | scriptory |
释义 | scriptory, a. and n. rare.|ˈskrɪptərɪ| [ad. L. scriptōri-us, f. script-, scrībĕre to write: see -ory.] A. adj. 1. Pertaining to or used in writing.
a1682Sir T. Browne Misc. Tracts i. (1683) 82 Reeds, Vallatory, Sagittary, Scriptory, and others. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. III. 21 Let the English reader fancy a Burton writing, not an Anatomy of Melancholy, but a foreign romance, through the scriptory organs of a Jeremy Bentham. 1905Daily Chron. 31 Jan. 4/3 There is a tendency nowadays to unify the scriptory characters of all languages. 2. Expressed in writing, written.
1704Swift Tale of Tub ii. 67 Of Wills, duo sunt genera, Nuncupatory and Scriptory. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert II. 133 Selwyn..was assured that Aurora had no intercourse, either verbally or scriptory, with any one. B. n. A writing-room, scriptorium.
a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 35 These clerks to have dynners & soupers to theyre scriptory. 1844Paley Church Restorers 14 It was the favourite scriptory of the writer. |

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