0 a person whose job is to write down what another person says or to copy what another person has written
I should have no trouble but that of dictation, which would be performed as speedily as an amanuensis could write.
The circumstance that an amanuensis was employed, and the author writes the initials of his signature only, strengthens this impression.
The only difference it produced, that I am aware of, was its causing him to employ the hand of an amanuensis in place of his own.
The plan had been put before him in manuscript For the mechanical part of the work Johnson employed, as he told me, six amanuenses.
The story simply wanted a straightforward amanuensis to tell itself.
One was to perform the duties of an amanuensis for a composer, theatre, church or court.
The classical amanuensis represented speech in writing; the microscope's amanuensis represented sight in drawing while engaging in a critical mental maneuver.
The cultural practices and variable literacy of the period resulted in the use of clerks, secretaries, and amanuenses.
