scribe

noun

• 1 historical a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
• informal, often humorous a writer, especially a journalist.

• 2 (also Scribe) Judaism an ancient Jewish record-keeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist.

• 3another term for scriber.

verb

• 1chiefly literary write:he scribed a note that he passed to Dan

• 2mark with a scriber.