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SCRIPTORIUM
scriptorium
(noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)
(countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
Source: Wiktionary
Scrip*to"ri*um, n.; pl. Scriptoria. Etym: [LL. See Scriptory.]
Definition: In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated. J. R. Green.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DAZED
(adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; “he had a dazed expression on his face”; “lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow”; “was stupid from fatigue”
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