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amanuensis [əˌmænjʊˈɛnsɪs] n pl -ses [-siːz] a person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts [from Latin āmanuensis, from the phrase servus ā manū slave at hand (that is, handwriting)] amanuensis Formal. 1. asecretary. See also: Occupations2. a scribe or copyist. Formal. 1. a secretary. See also: Aid
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The writer, indeed, seems to think himself obliged to keep even pace with time, whose amanuensis he is; and, like his master, travels as slowly through centuries of monkish dulness, when the world seems to have been asleep, as through that bright and busy age so nobly distinguished by the excellent Latin poet-- He said that men cured in this way, and enabled to discard the grape system, never afterward got over the habit of talking as if they were dictating to a slow amanuensis, because they always made a pause between each two words while they sucked the substance out of an imaginary grape. The task, notwithstanding the assistance of my amanuensis, has been a somewhat laborious one, but your society has happily prevented me from that too continuous prosecution of thought beyond the hours of study which has been the snare of my solitary life. |
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