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What is a scrivener?

What is a scrivener? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
  2. (obsolete) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
  3. A writing master.
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Bristow, scrivener and the King's clerk, was meticulous in his record keeping.
Mr. scrivener and Captain Smith were now in fact the sustainers of the colony.
Around the year 1350, a poor Parisian scrivener spent two florins on a strange but beautiful brass-bound book filled with curious diagrams.
Note also that the scrivener recorded the trade for the male applicant but not for the two female.
The practice also seems to have varied according to region, scrivener, and nature of the document in question.
Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.

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