Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a scribe or penman; clerical.
- Of or pertaining to the scribes, or doctors of the Jewish law.
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- adjective Relating to
scribes and their work.
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Examples
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They should be identified as scribal and their values should be merged.
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In Eternal Egypt, most of the sculptures, papyri, jewelry, funerary art, and objects from daily life are arranged chronologically, with some small thematic groupings such as scribal arts.
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JOhn G, your wording here is not the best – as you know, we’re not talking about different stations in most cases, but simply two different editions of the station history – what I’ve called scribal versions.
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Benjamin Roth St. Louis, Missouri CORRIGENDA A "scribal" error was responsible for printing hidari-leiki for hidari-kiki in Robin Gill's epistola
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This suggests that the lack of evidence of Iron Age scribal schools in Palestine is not sufficient …
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This suggests that the lack of evidence of Iron Age scribal schools in Palestine is not sufficient …
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This suggests that the lack of evidence of Iron Age scribal schools in Palestine is not sufficient …
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What the film does is very clever: it assumes that the poem that has come down to us is a bowdlerized propaganda version (which it assuredly is, having been through several scribal hands since its original composition) – and proceeds to tell us what really happened.
Film Maxine 2009
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This suggests that the lack of evidence of Iron Age scribal schools in Palestine is not sufficient …
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This suggests that the lack of evidence of Iron Age scribal schools in Palestine is not sufficient …
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