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been purely empirical, and his language too is so much 
inferior in point of elegance to that of Celsus, who had 
written but a short time before him, that some learned men 
have supposed that Scribonius wrote his work in Greek, and 
that it was translated into the Latin dress, in which it has 
descended to us, by some later hand. But Scribonius was 
probably a m&n of inferior education. His treatise has 
been several times reprinted, and stands among the “ Medica? 
Artis Principes” of Henry Stephens, 1567. See Freind’s 
History of Medicine, vol. i. Sprengel, Geschichte der 
Arzneikunde, ii. Theil. Le Clere, Hist, de la Medecine, 
p. 3. 
SCRI'MER, s. [escrimeur, French.] A gladiator ; a 
fencing-master. Not in use. 
The scrimers of their nation, 
He swore, had neither motion, guard, nor eye. 
If you oppos’d them. Shakspeare. 
SCRIMP, adj. [krinipen, Teut. to contract.] Short; 
scanty; still used in some parts of the north. 
SCRINE, s. [scrinium, Latin.] A place in which 
writings or curiosities are reposited. Scryn, a shrine; an¬ 
ciently a chest or coffer. Verstegan. 
Help then, O holy virgin, chief of nine, 
Thy weaker novice to perform thy will ; 
. Lay forth, out of thine everlasting serine. 
The antique rolls which there lie hidden still. Spenser. 
SCRIP, s. [skraeppa, Icelandic.] A small bag; a sat¬ 
chel.—Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; 
though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrip- 
page. Shakspeare.— From scriptio, Latin.] A schedule : 
a small writing.—Call them man by man, according to the 
scrip. Shakspeare. —Bills of exchange cannot pay our 
debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin. 
Locke. 
SCRFPPAGE. s. That which is contained in a scrip. 
—Though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and 
scrippage. Shakspeare. 
SCRIPT, s. [escript, old Fr. scriptum, Lat.] A small 
writing.—I you told of every script and bond. Chaucer. 
SCRIPTORIUM, a writing room in monasteries. 
SCRI'PTORY, adj. [scriptorius, Latin.] Written; not 
orally delivered.—Wills are nuncupatory and scriptory. 
Swift. —Serving to writing.—With such differences of reeds, 
valatory, sagittary, scriptory, and others, they might be fur¬ 
nished in Judea: Sir T. Brown. 
SCR1PTULUM, among the Romans, the twenty-fourth 
part of an ounce, and equal to two oboli. 
SCR1PTULUS, a word used by some instead of scru- 
pulus. 
SCRIPTURA, the name of the revenue which the Roman 
people raised upon the pasture-lands, of which the property 
was in the commonwealth, and which was farmed to 
particular persons. It was so called, because the number of 
cattle, which individuals were to put into these pasturages, 
was registered; and it was by that number the yearly sums 
which they engaged to pay were regulated. 
SCRI'PTURAL, adj. Contained in the Bible; biblical. 
—Creatures, the scriptural use of that word determine some¬ 
time to men. Atterhury. 
SCRI'PTURE, s. [Scripture, old French; scriptura, 
Latin.] Writing.—It is not only remembered in many 
scriptures, but famous for the death and overthrow of 
Crassus. Ralegh. —Sacred writing; the Bible. 
The devil can scite scripture iov his purpose: 
An evil soul producing holy witness, 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shakspeare. 
SCRI'PTURIST, s. One who understands the sacred 
writings. Unused. —Wicliffe was not only a good divine 
and scripturist, but well skilled in the civil, canon and 
English law. Abp. Newcome. 
SCRIVELSBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 2 
miles south of Horncastle. The manor of this place is held 
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by grand serjeantry; the owne;; of it performing the office of 
champion of England, at the coronation of the king, on 
which occasions he must appear on a good war-horse, in 
presence of the sovereign, to challenge any one who disputes 
his right to the crown. 
SCRIVEN, a township of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 1 mile north-by-west of Knaresborough. Population 
833. 
SCRIVEN, a county of the United States, in the north¬ 
east part of Georgia. Population 4477, including 1816 
slaves. 
SCRI'VENER, s. [scrivano, Ital. escrivain, French.] 
One who draws contracts. 
We’ll pass the business privately and well : 
Send for your daughter by your servants here. 
My boy shall fetch the scrivener. Shakspeare. 
One whose business is to place money at interest.—I am 
reduced to beg and borrow from scriveners and usurers, that 
suck the heart and blood. Arhuthnot. 
SCRIVER1US (Peter), an estimable man of letters, was 
born at Haerlem in 157 6. He was educated first at 
Amsterdam, where he had an uncle in the magistracy, and 
then at Leyden, with a view to the profession pf the law, 
but having a decided turn for literature, he married and 
fixed his residence at Leyden, devoting his time to reading 
and writing. He became the editor of many ancient 
authors, which he illustrated by comments of his own : 
among these works were those of Vegetius, Frontinus, 
Hyginus, ^puleius, Martial, and Seneca the tragedian. 
Scriverius wrote. a work in the Dutch language on the 
“ History of Printing,” in which he maintained the claim 
of Laurence Coster to the invention of that art. He 
published a collection of Batavian antiquities, and other 
pieces relative to the early history of the united provinces. 
Scriverius, at the age of 74, lost the use of his eyes, but he 
continued to solace himself with literature till his death in 
1660. His funeral was attended by the university of Leyden 
in a body, and an eulogy was pronounced over him by 
Frederic Gronovius. A collection of philological and 
poetical pieces from his MSS. was published at Utrecht in, 
1737. Moreri. 
SCRIVIA, a small river in the east of the continental 
Sardinian states, which falls into the Po, north of Tortona. 
SCROBICULUS Cordis, in Anatomy, the small de¬ 
pression in the middle of the upper part of the abdomen, 
just below the ensiform cartilage. In common language it is 
called the pit of the stomach. 
SCROFA, in Zoology: see Sus. —Scrofa, in Ichthy¬ 
ology : see Scorpjena.—Scrofa, in Entomology: see 
SCARAB^EUS 
SCROFANELLO, in Ichthyology, a name by which 
some have called a small fish of the Mediterranean, more 
usually known by the name of the scorpcena. 
SCROFULA, s. [from scrofa, Latin, a sow.] Glandular 
disease.—If matter in the milk dispose to coagulation, it pro¬ 
duces a scrofula. Wiseman. —See Pathology, p. 28P. 
SCROFULOUS, \adj. Diseased with the scrofula.— 
English consumptions generally proceed from a scrofulous 
disposition. Arhuthnot. s 
SCROG, s. [fcpob, Saxon.] A stunted shrub, bush, or 
branch, yet used in some parts of the north. A shrub was 
formerly called scrub, or scrob. 
SCROLL, s. [Supposed by Minsheu to be corrupted from 
roll; by Skinner derived from an escrouelle, given by the 
heralds.] A writing wrapped up. 
We’ll add a royal number to the dead. 
Gracing the scroll that tells of this war’s loss. 
With slaughter coupled to the name of kings. Shakspeare. 
Here is the scroll of every man’s name, which is thought 
fit through all Athens to play in our interlude. Shakspeare. 
SCROOBY, a parish of England, county of Nottingham, 
situated near Bawtry, on the road between London and 
York. 
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