scribacious
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of scribe + loquacious.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Adjective edit
scribacious (comparative more scribacious, superlative most scribacious)
- Prone to excessive writing.
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] 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[ohn] 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; […])
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References edit
- ^ 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[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
Further reading edit
- “Scribatious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Longman Guardian New Words (Longman Group UK Ltd., 1986)
- “scribacious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.