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

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

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

noun. One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts

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

noun. 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  

alguacil  bookkeeper  copyist  dogsbody  draftsman  

Federal  accountant  agent  archivist  baggage agent  

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