单词 | scription |
释义 | scriptionn. 1. A written text; a piece of writing; esp. an inscription. Now rare (poetic in later use). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] onwritingOE writinga1382 inwritingc1384 writa1400 scripturec1400 scriptiona1425 style?a1527 inscriptiona1552 epigram1552 inscriptor1603 inscript1611 epigraph1624 scribings1870 wording1908 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] i-writeOE bookOE writOE workOE pagine?c1225 lettrurec1330 dite1340 inditing1340 writing1340 scripta1350 dittya1387 stylea1400 scriptiona1425 framec1475 invention1484 piece1533 ditement1556 paperwork1577 composition1603 confection1605 composure?1606 page?1606 the written word1619 performance1665 literature1852 a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Cambr. Add. 6681) (1850) Psalms lviii. 1 Scripcioun [a1382 Douce 369(1) In to the ende, ne destroȝe thou or shend Dauid, in the inscripcioun of the title]. a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 133 (MED) The scripcioun of his Priue Sel is this, ‘The sel of the Emperour, and of alle othere men the myghty god’; The scripcioun of hese Grete Sel is this, ‘God in Heuene and Cane in erthe’. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 765 (MED) Sche be-hylde þe fyrste vessell & Rede þe scripcion. 1535 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 151 Ane precept of seissine selit with freir Villiem Lermont propir seill and with ane scriptioun selit at Mussilburgh. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Ep. to Rdr. sig. *viv To imploye their time in the readinge of my scriptsons [sic] and writinges. 1607 Bp. J. King Serm. Oxon 5 Nov. 34 Let the scription of those tables bee. Non nobis domine [etc.]. 1693 J. Dryden Examen Poeticum Ded. sig. A6v I care not much, if I give this handle, to our bad Illiterate Poetasters, for the defence of their Scriptions as they call them. 1722 E. Thomas Misc. Poems 253 Accept this Scription from your Debtor, When she's grown up, she'll write a better. 1836 T. F. Dibdin Reminisc. Literary Life II. xi. 780 The scription or text here seems to be a secondary question; as it might have been written upon the vellum which had long previously contained the illuminations. 1869 S. D. F. Salmond Writings Hippolytus II. App. 117 Still we say that perhaps the scription of this same seal will give us the word I deny (ἀρνοῦμαι). 1978 Poetry Jan. 206 The scratchings on the surface of the rock, Utterings, scriptions, bafflings of the spirit. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [noun] writingeOE penning1548 composition1553 characterizing1591 penship1622 scription1627 exaration1631 inkshed1672 scrivening1680 quill-driving1756 pen-and-inkage1894 1627 W. Ressold 4 Serm. iii. 91 By scription or writing we become to participate of the sinnes of others. 1649 W. Chappell Use Holy Script. 11 The scription, penning, or writing of those holy Books at first, are both of them given by inspiration of God. 1735 Prompter 18 July (single sheet) My Lord Roscommon, one of the earliest Champions for this last Kind of Scription, writes his Essay on translated Verse, in as good Rhyme, as he was at Leisure to put together. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. ii. iii. 279 Recordation, registration, scription. 1845 J. O. Westwood Palæographia Sacra Pictoria 10 This slight ground for conferring the scription of the MS. on a Welshman, will scarcely be considered. b. Literary Theory and Semiotics. The physical process (as opposed to the art) of writing.Frequently in translations of or with reference to the works of the French literary theorist Roland Barthes (1915–80). ΚΠ 1972 L. S. Roudiez French Fiction Today xiv. 343 The author..adopted what Roland Barthes called the scription (écriture) of the French twentieth-century ‘novel’. 1982 World Lit. Today 56 228/1 The failure to pay greater attention to the very materials being used—ink, typography, paper, the surface of the page, the shape of the book, for instance, where scription is involved. 1985 L. Coverdale tr. R. Barthes Grain of Voice: Interviews 1962–80 3 Here is what falls into the trap of scription [Fr. la trappe de la scription] (this word, pedantic though it may be, is preferable to writing: writing is not necessarily the mode of existence of what is written). 2002 S. Corngold in J. Rolleston Compan. Wks. Kafka 158 He is fully aware of a history of events occurring not only at the level of the diegesis but at the level, too, of scription—the making of the manuscript. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] handOE scripturea1400 writing1440 written hand1520 hand write1568 handwriting1571 written hand1580 write1591 calligraphy1645 penmanship1695 hand of write1700 manuscript1771 autography1787 calography1803 calligraph1831 script1834 chirography1838 scription1846 hand lettering1864 back-hand1885 1846 W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae II. p. xxxiv The vellum is rough, and the scription careless. 1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. iii. 275 Britain taught Ireland a peculiar style of scription. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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