subscribe: sign or support, or pay regularly for a publication or service (literally, “write beneath”: “Long ago, she had learned that many people didn’t subscribe to her morals”)ĩ. proscribe: prohibit (literally, “write for”: “When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen’s constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly”)Ĩ. prescribe: make a rule, or tell someone to use a remedy or treatment (literally, “write before”: “The numerous fasts of the national church prescribe a fish diet”)ħ. inscribe: write on something (literally, “write in”: “They would then inscribe a verse over the door of the house for protection”)Ħ. describe: represent by drawing something or talking about it, or trace the outline of something (literally, “draw from”: “I can’t describe how helpless I felt”)ĥ. conscribe: synonym for circumscribe or variant of conscriptĤ. circumscribe: constrict or surround, or define (literally, “draw around”: “To circumscribe the influence of the ruling favorites, he next suggested the formation of a cabinet council of six or eight ministers”)ģ. ascribe: attribute (literally, “write to”: “It is largely to this that we must ascribe the national conservatism and contempt for foreigners”)Ģ. (Note that each verb listed here can be converted to a noun by changing -scribe to -scription, as in prescribe/prescription.)ġ.
Scribe is the basis of a select group of other words here are ten such terms and their meanings, along with examples of their use in a sentence.
#Write music with superscribe professional
( Scrivener is a synonym from medieval Anglo-French.) The term is rarely used outside of historical contexts but occasionally appears as affected slang to refer to a professional author or writer the same is true of its use as a verb to refer to the action of writing. Scribe, from the Latin term scribere, meaning “to write,” referred to a person who performed the responsibilities of an accountant, a secretary, or both but later denoted any writer. 10 Words Derived from “Scribe” By Mark Nichol
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