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A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Then he read to us—that passage about the miracle in the Gospel according to Mark: And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them.†
p. 575.2
Definitions:
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(scribe) in the days before printing presses and related technology: someone employed to write copies of documents or write what someone said
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, scribe can reference a writer -- especially a journalist. It can also reference a religious teacher from biblical times. Even more rarely, it can reference a sharp-pointed tool for marking wood or metal to be cut; or a line made on metal or wood such as might be used to indicate where material should be cut.