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Definition of Amanuenses
1. amanuensis [n] - See also: amanuensis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amanuenses
Literary usage of Amanuenses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work / by Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny, Penny, Virginia, b. 1826 (1863)
"amanuenses. amanuenses are employed to write from dictation, generally by authors.
... amanuenses are usually employed by the week, month, or year. ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"from Glasgow, engaged several young men ai amanuenses,8 and devoted himself ...
He still, however, continued to oversee and direct his amanuenses ; and ..."
3. Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by Samuel Johnson (1892)
"... which were the printing had gone on some time pasted on as they were collected
by ' the proprietors of the Dict,onary the different amanuenses; ..."
4. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... pains of digesting and transcribing, to say nothing of the charge of amanuenses
and copiers. It is pity there is not the like communication amongst us. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... by family troubles and by increasing blindness, but although by 1844 he had
completely lost his sight he continued to work by means of amanuenses. ..."
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