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plural scriveners
A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. quotations examples
Scrivener (enters with a paper in hand):Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,Which in a set hand fairly in engrossedThat is may be today read o'er in Paul's.And mark how well the sequel hangs together:Eleven hours I have spent to write it over […]
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene vi]
(obsolete) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.