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exscribe

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To copy down onto paper; to transcribe.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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