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    [Noun]  | "aman*u*en*sis" | \ ə-ˌman-yə-ˈwen(t)-səs \


    1: one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript


    Origin: 1619 ;

     Borrowed from Latin āmanuensis, from (servus) ā manū "slave with secretarial duties," literally, "(slave) from the hand" + -ensis, suffix of appurtenance;

    [Noun]  | "amanuensis" 


    1: one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts;


      * e.g., " ... thanks to the efforts of his dutiful amanuensis, copies of most of the author's letters and unpublished manuscripts have been preserved "



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     [ "amanuensis" ]

    1: one employed to write from dictation orto copy manuscript.

      * e.g.,  ... The amanuensis accidentally copied the stories out of order resuling in major confusion for the students who were the children of the pharoh. 

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