transcribe

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRANSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin transcribo; trans, over, and scribo, to write.] To copy; to write over again or in the same words; to write a copy of any thing; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.
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