inscriptionist

English

Etymology

From inscription +‎ -ist.

Noun

inscriptionist (plural inscriptionists)

1. (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.