amanuensis

How To Use amanuensis In A Sentence

• But she had, like some robotic amanuensis, taking down dictation. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
• With his eloquent amanuensis Chen Boda at his elbow, he cast back to China's wartime experience for a solution.
• You were added to the list for one reason, John: you added the word "amanuensis" to my vocabulary. 10 Genealogy Blogs Worth Reading
• During their short and turbulent life he became virtually their cinematic amanuensis, a process which culminated in his first feature film.
• 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. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
• When Bellori chose portraits for his Lives, by a still unidentified artist, he or his amanuensis decided to include such props as a book for Nicolas Poussin and a burin for Agostino Carracci.
• Units of legal affairs: procurator, amanuensis, forensic physician, inspector, bailiff, investigator, rectification personnel, and guard.
• Secondly, if this meeting was only to do with matters arising from procedure concerning the Speaker's Statement, why does Harriett Harperson's amanuensis set out in extenso an agenda that can only be germane to a discussion of the substance of the Speaker's proposed statement, under the heading 'Parliamentary Privilege: Four Principles'? Archive 2008-11-30
• By the age of twenty-four she was free to seek work outside the home, finding temporary positions as amanuensis and governess.
• Towards the end of 1638 a young pupil, Vincenzio Viviani, came to live and study with Galileo, serving him also as amanuensis.