a. [f. as prec. + -IVE; cf. descriptive, etc.]
1. Having the quality or habit of transcribing; given, devoted, or tending to transcription.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. viii. 29. Although excellent and usefull Authors, yet being either transcriptive, or following the common relations of things, their accounts are not to be swallowed at large. Ibid., 33. He is to be embraced … as a transcriptive relator.
1823. Byron, Lett., in Eng. Stud. (1897), XXXIII. 453. I sent to Mrs. S—— a few Scenes more of the drama begun for her transcriptive leisure.
1888. Cave, Inspir. O. Test., viii. 455. Transcriptive Inspiration … moves the writers to write.
2. Rom. Law. Transferring obligation: cf. TRANSCRIPTION 4.
1875. Poste, Gaius, III. § 131. 11. Transcriptive entries differ from mere entries of a person as debtor to cash.
Hence Transcriptively adv. rare, in a transcriptive manner; by way of transcription.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. vi. 21. Authors write often dubiously…. Not a few transcriptively,… meerely transcribing almost all they have written.
