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amanuensis

noun clerk, recorder, recording secreeary, scribe, scrivener, secretary, writer

AMANUENSIS. One who write another dictates. About the beginning of the sixth century,, the tabellions (q.v.) were known by this name. 1 Sav. Dr. Rom. Moy. Age, n. 16.

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I think he somehow got the idea of an amanuensis from the relationship between Frederick Delius, the English composer, and his younger colleague Eric Fenby.
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I was determined to take him in spite of my history, to refrain from adding to the pattern emerging from the rueful chorus: my mothers cast me as amanuensis to record their versions of the crime.
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