单词 | scribacious |
释义 | scribaciousadj. Enthusiastic about or fond of writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [adjective] > given to or fond of writing scribaciousa1677 a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 165 We have some Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes were then not very scribacious..). 1840 T. Carlyle Let. 1 Apr. in Corr. Emerson & Carlyle (1899) I. 302 Heraud is a loquacious scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect. 1866 W. A. Wheeler Dict. Noted Names Fiction 149/2 Others attribute it [sc. a cookery-book] to the scribatious Dr. Hill. 1948 Oracle (Monmouth Coll., Illinois) 19 Mar. 5/1 With a Webster nearby He's a scribacious guy, Tho' he doesn't show much finesse. 2004 J. Raskin Amer. Scream vi. 109 He was addicted to his journal—he was scribacious—and he was compelled ‘to put naked self down on paper’. Derivatives scriˈbaciousness n. now rare enthusiasm or fondness for writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing > capability or disposition for writability1770 scribaciousness1846 1846 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. in Jrnls. & Misc. Notebks. (1971) IX. 373 Already the scribaciousness of our ministers has produced a number of pretended new collections. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 188 Cornelius Agrippa ‘On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences’ is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. 1958 P. M. Hill Two Augustan Booksellers 10 It's..a measure of his extreme scribaciousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1677 |
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