Definition of Copyist

1. Noun. Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts.

Exact synonyms: Scribe, Scrivener
Generic synonyms: Employee
Specialized synonyms: Ezra
Derivative terms: Copy, Copy, Copy

Definition of Copyist

1. n. A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

Definition of Copyist

1. Noun. a person who makes written copies of manuscripts; a scrivener or scribe ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Copyist

1. an imitator [n -S] - See also: imitator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Copyist

copyfights
copyfraud
copygirl
copygirls
copygraph
copygraphs
copyhold
copyholder
copyholders
copyholds
copying
copying processes
copyings
copyism
copyisms
copyist (current term)
copyists
copyleft
copyleft symbol
copyleft symbols
copylefted
copylefting
copylefts
copyparties
copyparty
copypasta
copypastaed
copypastaing
copypastas
copyread

Literary usage of Copyist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists by John William Bradley (1889)
"copyist. Saec. XIV. Wrote, at Verona, in 1323 : "Dares Phrygius et Dictys Cretensis," ... copyist. Saec. XV. Wrote, in 1469 : " Rabani Mauri lib. de cruce. ..."

2. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"... only impress on her to be honest and attached to me, as well as orderly and punctual in her small services. Your devoted, BEETHOVEN. For the copyist ..."

3. Report by Jacob Merritt Howard, United States Congress. Senate. Select committee on memorial of Davis Hatch (1869)
"A. I think that is the copyist's. Q. Who was the copyist ?—A. A man over the office of Colonel ... Do you think that is in the handwriting of the copyist ? ..."

4. Life and Letters of William Bewick (artist) by William Bewick, Thomas Landseer (1871)
"BEWICK'S FAME AS A copyist—'REMBRANDT IN GLASGOW UNIVERSITY GENERAL GRAHAM ... BEWICK had now acquired great skill as a copyist, and while at Gartmore, ..."

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