inscriptionist
English edit
Etymology edit
inscription + -ist
Noun edit
inscriptionist (plural inscriptionists)
- (uncommon, nonstandard, especially non-native speakers' English) One who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.
- Synonym: (the standard term:) scribe
- 1841, The Christian observer, page 369:
- The Egyptians were indeed indefatigable architects, sculptors, painters, hieroglyphists, and inscriptionists […]
- 1984, Bonnie Clearwater, Mark Rothko, works on paper:
- Rothko more than any artist I have known succumbed to the lure of light, light that, as the Byzantine inscriptionist said, can be contained but never captured really […]
- 1994, Kathleen Henderson Staudt, At the turn of a civilization: David Jones and modern poetics, page 72:
- But it also reminds us from the beginning that words are the physical materials of this poet's work, as they are the materials for the inscriptionist.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:inscriptionist.