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scribed

scribed is the simple past and past participle of scribe.

Meaning of scribe

Verb

scribe (third-person singular simple present scribes, present participle scribing, simple past and past participle scribed)

  1. To write.
  2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
    • There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.c. 1597–1598, Edmund Spenser, “Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: […]. Book VII, Canto VI.”, in The Faerie Queene, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, published 1609, →OCLC, stanza 35...
  3. To record, as a scribe.
  4. To write or draw with a scribe.
  5. To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
  6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

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Questions about scribed

What is scribed the simple past and past participle of?
Scribed is the simple past and past participle of scribe.

Words near scribed in the dictionary

  1. scribblings
  2. scribbly
  3. scribbly gum
  4. scribbly gum moth
  5. scribe
  6. scribed
  7. scribedom
  8. scribely
  9. scriber
  10. scriber block
  11. scriber blocks

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