exscribe

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English

Etymology

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

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exscribe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

exscrībe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of exscrībō
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