transcribbler (transkribʻler)

[ He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity nece arily must. Gray, To T. Wharton, Sept. 11, 1746. transcribe (tran-skrīb'), v. t.; pret. and pp. transcribed, ppr. transcribing . [F. transcrire = Pr. transcriure = Sp. transcribir = Pg. transcrever = It. transcrivere, trascrivere, tran cribere , write again in another place, transcribe, copy, trans , over, + scribere , write: see scribe .] 1. To copy out in writing: as, to transcribe the text of a document; to tran scribe a letter. They work daily and hard at the Catalogue, which they intend to Print; I saw 10 thick Folios of it fairly tran scrib'd for the Pre . Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 107. 2. In music, to arrange (a composition) for performance by a different voice or instrument from that for which it was originally written. transcriber (tran-skri'bėr), n. [ I pray you desire your servants, or whoever else are the transcribers of my bookes, to keepe them from blotting and soyling. W. Dugdale (Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 175).