Definition of "scrivano" [scrivano]

• A writer; clerk; one who keeps accounts. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "One of them told me that his wife had just written to him by the hand of a _scrivano_, lamenting his absence, and praying him to send her his portrait."
• ""Clear away the big gun," he said to Mariano, who acted as his first officer, Lucien being the scrivano or supercargo of the vessel; "'tis a good piece, and has turned the flight of many a pirate with its first bark.""
• "Among other things, he made some stern laws in reference to runaway slaves; and, having his attention drawn to the fact that the scrivano-grande of the late Achmet, and his assistant secretary, had not yet been discovered, he not only ordered the search for them to be continued with increased diligence, but took the unusual method of offering a reward to any one who should find or bring news of them."