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n. One who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript.

n. One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts

n. A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.

n. A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

n. A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what has been written by another.

n. someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)

"Which amanuensis is a drunken, bankrupt village grocer, of whom my son-in-law is one of the defrauded creditors – Mr. L — having intrusted him with about forty pounds 'worth of the plantation rice, to sell on commission for him, which rice, indeed, was sold, but was never accounted for, and as the man is a bankrupt, never will be."

secretarial assistant    secretary   

amanuenses   

scrivener    scribe    write    khoja   

bookkeeper    copyist    registrar    paralegals    typist