Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to writing; fond of writing.
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- adjective prone to excessive writing
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Examples
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Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Heraud is a loquacious scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect, whom Leigh Hunt describes as “wavering in the most astonishing manner between being Something and Nothing.”
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Heraud is a loquacious scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect, whom Leigh Hunt describes as "wavering in the most astonishing manner between being Something and Nothing."
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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