scribaciousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -eɪʃəs

形容詞

scribacious (comparative more scribacious, superlative most scribacious)

1. Prone to excessive writing.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 165:

     VVe have ſome Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes vvere then not very ſcribacious, or not ſo pragmatical; […])

別の表記

• scribaceous, scribatious

参照

Further reading

• “Scribatious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Longman Guardian New Words (Longman Group UK Ltd., 1986)
• “scribacious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.