Scrivener

n. copyist, one who copies manuscripts; public clerk; notary public, person authorized to certify documents and take legal statements

For the text editor, see Scrivener (software). A scrivener (or scribe) was traditionally a person who could read and write. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and history records for kings, nobility, temples, and cities. Scriveners later developed into public servants, accountants, lawyers and petition writers, etc.
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Noun
1. someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
(synonym) copyist, scribe
(hypernym) employee
(hyponym) Ezra

(n.)
One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
  

(n.)
A writing master.
  

(n.)
A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
  

A person whose, business it is to write deeds and other instruments for others; a conveyancer.

Money scriveners are those who are engaged in procuring money to be lent on mortgages and other securities, and lending such money accordingly. They act also as agents for the purchase and sale of real estates.

To be considered a money scrivener, a person must be concerned in carrying on the trade or profession as a means of making a livelihood. He must in the course of his occupation receive other men's moneys into his trust and custody, to lay out for them as occasion offers.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.