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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Underscriber, -scryber, -scriver, -scryver, n. [17th c. Eng. underscriber (1687); Scriver n. (a scribe or secretary).] One whose name is given below; the undersigned. = Under-subscriver n. —(a) 1658 Argyll Synod II 179.
There is a necessity of delivereing the said registers to the earle … before they can be transcrybed ad longum. Therefore the underscryber hath collected the substance of each act in form of minute of what was left untranscrybed 1681 Grant Burgh Schools 136.
We underscribers, keepers of Latin schools, bind and oblige ourselves that [etc.] —(b) 1610 Colquhoun Chart. 220.
We … perrochineris off the perochin off Luss, … vnderscriveris … at our said perroche kirk 1662 Craven Ch. in Orkney 10.
Wee underscryvers … doe by thir presents … declair … our … humble submissione to the present government of the church 1681 Irvine Mun. II 293.
Wittness our hands … by usse underscrivers