v. Obs. Also 7 excribe. [ad. L. exscrīb-ĕre, f. ex- out + scrībĕre to write.] trans. To copy or write out; to transcribe.
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1653), 661. As Aelianus in his ninth Book and thirty nine Chapter, word for word hath exscribed out of Aristotle.
1658. Ussher, Ann., 351. Demetrius caused it to be fairely exscribed.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 19. Clerks or Secretaries … exscribing … Particulars of or for it.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
Hence Exscribed ppl. a. = ESCRIBED. † Exscriber, one who writes out, a copyist. † Exscribing vbl. sb.
a. 1612. Donne, Βιαθανατος (1644), 20. A Councell in France … punished with Excommunication the excribing, reading, or having that booke. Ibid. (a. 1631), Ess. (1651), 128. Some other exscriber … reformed it deformly since his [St. Luke’s] writing.
1677. R. Cary, Chronol., II. I. I. iii. 99. This Canon hath gone abroad in the World very imperfect, occasioned at first by Heedless Exscribers.
1879. Salmon, Conic Sect., 127. The equation of one of the exscribed circles.
