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amanuensis
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a·man·u·en·sis  (-mny-nss)
n. pl. a·man·u·en·ses (-sz)
One who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript.
[Latin manunsis, from the phrase (servus) man, (slave) at handwriting : , ab, by; see ab-1 + man, ablative of manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots.]
amanuensis [am-man-yew-en-siss, -seez]
Noun
pl -ses a person who copies manuscripts or takes dictation [Latin servus a manu slave at hand]
amanuensis
Formal. 1. asecretary.
2. a scribe or copyist.
See also: Occupations
Formal. 1. a secretary.
2. a scribe or copyist.
See also: Aid
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Noun1.amanuensisamanuensis - someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)
shorthand typist, stenographer
secretarial assistant, secretary - an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization


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With the help of nine amanuenses (amanuensis: a person who writes what another dictates)--practically all of them Scots--Johnson opened shop at 17 Gough Square, off Fleet Street in London, and set about the laborious chore of collecting and arranging 42,773 entries for the first edition.
Johnson's Canon; On the trail of the Great Lexicographer by Simmons, Tracy Lee / The Weekly Standard
Although the ex-slaves speak for themselves in this collection (through FWP amanuenses, of course), this "Folk History of Slavery" doesn't yield a single African word or name.
Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera by Hoffman-Jeep, Lynda / African American Review
In fact, Don Talayesva, a Hopi Indian who told his life story to Leo Simmons, a Yale sociologist, and Gregorio, a Navajo whose story was written down by Alexander and Dorothy Leighton, two medically trained participants in the Values Study Project launched by Clyde Kluckhohn in the 1940s, were treated very differently by their amanuenses.
American Indian Autobiography by Woodward, Pauline G. / MELUS
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