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scribaceous

scribaceous is the alternative form of scribacious.

Meaning of scribacious

Adjective

scribacious (comparative more scribacious, superlative most scribacious)

  1. Prone to excessive writing.
    • VVe have ſome Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes vvere then not very ſcribacious, or not ſo pragmatical;[…])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...

Forms of scribaceous

comparativemore scribaceous
superlativemost scribaceous

Origin of scribaceous

From variant of scribacious, ultimately from Latin scrībo + -aceous.

Questions about scribaceous

What is scribaceous the alternative form of?
Scribaceous is the alternative form of scribacious.

Words near scribaceous in the dictionary

  1. screwworm
  2. screwworms
  3. screwy
  4. Scriabinian
  5. scribable
  6. scribaceous
  7. scribacious
  8. scribaciousness
  9. scribal
  10. scribality
  11. scribally

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