scribblage (skriblaj)

[ A review which profe edly omitted the polemic scrib blage of theology and politics. W. Taylor , Survey of German Poetry, I. 352. ( Davies .) scribble (skrib'l), v.; pret. and pp. scribbled , ppr. scribbling . [Early mod. E. scrible ; freq. of scribe, v. Cf. OHG. scribilōn , write much, G. schreibler , a scribbler, scriban , schrei ben , write: see scribe , v.] I. trans . 1. To write with haste, or without care or regard to correctne or elegance: as, to scribble a letter or pamphlet. I cannot forbear sometimes to scribble something in poesy. 2. To cover or fill with carele or worthle John Cotton, in Letters of Eminent Men, I. 23. writing, or unintelligible and entangled lines. Every margin scribbled, crost, and cramm'd. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. II. in trans. To write without care or regard for correctne or elegance; scrawl; make unintelligible and entangled lines on paper or a slate for mere amusement, as a child does. If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 34. scribble1 (skrib'l), n. [Early mod. E. scrible ; scribble . O that.. one that was born but to spoil or tran scribe good Authors should think himself able to write any thing of his own that will reach Posterity, whom together with his frivolous Scribles the very next Age will bury in oblivion. Milton, Ans. to Salmasius, Pref., p. 19. 5423