scrivener noun. ['skrɪv(ǝ)nǝ] ME.
[Aphet. from Old French escrivein (mod. écrivain) from Proto-Romance from Latin scriba SCRIBE noun¹: see -ER¹.]
1. A professional writer or scribe; a copyist; a clerk, a secretary. ME.
Daily Telegraph The Lord Chancellor's department..employs a scrivener to write the document.

2. Hist. A notary. L15.

3. Hist. A person who invested money at interest for clients, and who lent funds to those who wanted to raise money on security. Formerly also money scrivener. E17.
■ R. H. Tawney The age of Elizabeth saw..the beginnings of something like deposit banking in the hands of the scriveners.
Phrases: scrivener's cramp, scrivener's palsy writer's cramp.

■ scrivenery noun (a) the occupation of a scrivener; writing, esp. that of a copyist or clerk; (b) a room in which scriveners work: M19.

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