v. rare. [f. TRANS- + SCRIBBLE v., after transcribe.] trans. To transcribe carelessly or hastily. So Transcribbler, a careless or hasty transcriber.
1746. Gray, Lett. to Wharton, in W. Mason, Mem. (1807), II. 37. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.
1750. Coventry, Pompey Litt. II. xii. He once in a quarter of a year, took the pains to transcribble a sermon out of various authors.
1821. Byron, Lett. to Moore, 19 Sept. Such licentiousness of Verb and Noun as may tend to disparage my parts of speech by the carelessness of the transcribblers.
1858. Middlebury Register, 1 Sept., 1/2.
O how dear to me | |
Are those sweet lines addressed to M. L. G. | |
Initials which the learned linguist Jerry, | |
Translated, and transcribbles into Mary. |