transcript

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRAN'SCRIPT, noun [Latin transcriptum.] A copy; a writing made from and according to an original; a writing or composition consisting of the same words with the original. The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript not an original. 1. A copy of any kind. The Roman learning was a transcript of the Grecian.
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