Define That Term #28

Yesterday's term was emolument, which is defined as:

n. salary, wages and benefits paid for employment or an office held.

Unfortunately, no correct guesses this time around.

Today's term is:

scrivener.

Good luck and no dictionaries!

Comments

[Damin J. Toell, Esq.]

A scrivener is a scribe, no? I recall the concept of errors being chalked up to "scrivener's error."

[Paul S. Shemin]

Perhaps a scribe is a scrivener or vice-versa; but I think a scrivener pertains more to dudes who specifically drew up legal documents, as opposed to those who generally scribed things. Perhaps scriveners were precursors to lawyers -- once they started keeping copies of what they wrote and realized they had the forms!

[slickdpdx]

Scriveners are copyists. They don't apply the law, give advice, or represent clients. At least they shouldn't...