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English
Etymology
Blend of scribe + loquacious.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
scribacious (comparative more scribacious, superlative most scribacious)
- Prone to excessive writing.
a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “ that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. , London: Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, , published 1680, →OCLC, page 165:VVe have ſome Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes vvere then not very ſcribacious, or not ſo pragmatical; […])
References
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future, Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
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