Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what has been written by another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One
employed totake dictation , orcopy manuscripts - noun A
clerk ,secretary orstenographer , orscribe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Which amanuensis is a drunken, bankrupt village grocer, of whom my son-in-law is one of the defrauded creditors – Mr. L — having intrusted him with about forty pounds 'worth of the plantation rice, to sell on commission for him, which rice, indeed, was sold, but was never accounted for, and as the man is a bankrupt, never will be.
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Paul's autograph salutation (so 1Co 16: 21; 2Th 3: 17), attesting that the preceding letter, though written by an amanuensis, is from himself.
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Eight to five you never heard the word amanuensis and you never saw a cocklebur.”
The Black Mountain Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1954
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The amanuensis was a red-haired young man -- probably a colonial from one of the worlds of Rita's Veil, judging by his accent.
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My amanuensis is a gentleman who acted as my aide-de-camp, and I beg you will acquaint his good father that he acquitted himself highly to my satisfaction, and showed himself deserving the stock from which he sprung.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I John Ross 1816
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Driven by the "very human desire for philosophical immortality," Bruno recites his life story to a young researcher, his "amanuensis," in a lab where he's being held for murder.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011
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Driven by the "very human desire for philosophical immortality," Bruno recites his life story to a young researcher, his "amanuensis," in a lab where he's being held for murder.
Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love Ron Charles 2011
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In the screenshot above, I'm using YubNub to do a Google search for the word "amanuensis". posted by Jonathan at
(Windows) SlickRun: Looks cool with a large font Jonathan Aquino 2007
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You were added to the list for one reason, John: you added the word "amanuensis" to my vocabulary.
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In the screenshot above, I'm using YubNub to do a Google search for the word "amanuensis". posted by Jonathan at
Archive 2007-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2007
alguien commented on the word amanuensis
What an ugly-looking word. That "nuen," in particular, is killing me.
March 26, 2007
sionnach commented on the word amanuensis
In Norway, amanuensis is an academic rank of a lecturer without a doctorate, and this title is going out of use. Førsteamanuensis (Norwegian for "first amanuensis") is the equivalent of associate professor.
December 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the word amanuensis
It's interesting that the "related words" function is not symmetric. alguacil shows up as being related to amanuensis, but amanuensis is not listed as being related to alguacil.
August 12, 2011