inscriptionist
inscriptionist noun: one who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.
Noun
inscriptionist (plural inscriptionists)
- One who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.
- The Egyptians were indeed indefatigable architects, sculptors, painters, hieroglyphists, and inscriptionists[…]1841, The Christian observer, page 369
- Rothko more than any artist I have known succumbed to the lure of light, light that, as the Byzantine inscriptionist said, can be contained but never captured really[…]1984, Bonnie Clearwater, Mark Rothko, works on paper
- Synonyms:
- scribe
Examples of inscriptionist in a sentence
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:inscriptionist.
- But it also reminds us from the beginning that words are the physical materials of this poet's work, as they are the materials for the inscriptionist.1994, Kathleen Henderson Staudt, At the turn of a civilization: David Jones and modern poetics, page 72:
Synonyms of inscriptionist
Forms of inscriptionist
| plural | inscriptionists |
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Origin of inscriptionist
From inscription + -ist.
Questions about inscriptionist
- What does inscriptionist mean?
- Inscriptionist means one who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.
- How do you use inscriptionist in a sentence?
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:inscriptionist.
- What part of speech is inscriptionist?
- Inscriptionist is a noun.
- What is the plural of inscriptionist?
- The plural of inscriptionist is inscriptionists.
Words near inscriptionist in the dictionary
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