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1. An ancient highly respected and important Egyptian profession.
2. Someone who copies or writes out documents, especially someone who copied manuscripts in medieval times.
3. A general designation for any public official (whether of high or low rank) concerned with writing or the keeping of accounts; a secretary, clerk.
4. A copyist, transcriber of manuscripts; now especially, the writer of a particular MS (manuscript) copy of a classical or medieval work.
5. Someone (more or less) skilled in penmanship.
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scrib-, script-, -scribe, -scription, -scriptive
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(scribe tools and symbols of one of the most important occupations of ancient Egyptian times)
(Egyptian schools for scribes prepared students so they could have the economic advantages of those who worked in this profession)
(scribe tools and symbols of one of the most important occupations of ancient Egyptian times)
(Latin: write, record)
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A member of a small and very powerful group in ancient society who knew how to read and to write.
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Science and Technology Words from the Ancient Past to the Present, Part 1
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