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† ˈcopist Obs.
[a. F. copiste (in Cotgr. 1611) or med.L. copista, f. F. copier to copy.]
The earlier form of copyist.
1682Wheler Journ. Greece vi. 464 The Copists have written ἄλλαι instead of Ἅλαι. 1696Phil. Trans. XIX. 328 Added by Readers or Copists. 1706Art of Painting (1744) 64 The fear of passing beyond the bounds of this exactness..makes the hand of the copist stiff. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 354 He is..no other than a copist after nature. 1779Applegarth Surv. Hum. Und. iii. 156 note, To the Errors of Translators and Copists.
b. Name of certain officials in the Ecclesiastical Court.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 358 b, Wherein reygneth..For Evangelistes, cruell Canonistes, Copistes, Decretaries. 1587J. Harmar tr. Beza's Serm. 134 (T.) Proctors in the court ecclesiastical, dataries, bullists, copists. |