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Exscribe

Ex-scribe′

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
excribere
;
ex
out, from +
scribere
to write.]
To copy; to transcribe.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Exscribe

EXSCRI'BE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. exscribo.] To copy; to transcribe. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

exscribe

exscribe

English

Verb

exscribe ‎(third-person singular simple present exscribes, present participle exscribing, simple past and past participle exscribed)

  1. (obsolete) To copy; to transcribe.
    • 1640-41, Ben Jonson, A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth,
      I that have been a lover, and could show it/ Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb/ Since I exscribe your sonnets, am become/ A better lover, and much better poet.

Latin

Verb

exscrībe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of exscrībō

Etymology

From Latin excribere; ex ‎(“out, from”) + scribere ‎(“to write”).

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