Crossword-Solution: AMANUENSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amanuensis | n. | A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “AMANUENSIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Helper who takes dictation | 1 answer |
| Manuscript copier a guy uses in novel | 1 answer |
| Secretary of a sort | 2 answers |
| legal assistant | 4 answers |
| SECRETARY | 11 answers |
| OCCUPATION, type of | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with AMANUENSIS (5)
The intended argument, then, so far as it was known at the time of the writer’s death to his step-daughter and devoted amanuensis, Mrs.
The Amanuensis did not strike me the same way; she was probably thinking, but it was really rather a weird business, and I saw what I have never seen before, the witch-fires gathered into little bright blue points almost as bright as a night-light.
There he reclines, on a couch in his library, and is said to spend whole hours of every day in dictating tales to an amanuensis,—to an imaginary amanuensis; for it is not deemed worth any one’s trouble now to take down what flows from that once brilliant fancy, every image of which was formerly worth gold and capable of being coined.
Then a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as amanuensis--with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined--to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher.
The Amanuensis states that you are a lover of silence—and that ours is a noisy house—and she is a chatterbox—I am not answerable for these statements, though I do think there is a touch of garrulity about my premises.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1982–2003).