copyist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cop=y=ist

CIDE DICTIONARY

copyist, n. 

 A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

copyist, n.
1 a person who makes (esp. written) copies.
2 an imitator.

Etymology

earlier copist f. F copiste or med.L copista (as COPY)

THESAURUS

copyist

amanuensis, ape, artisan, artist, artiste, calligrapher, chirographer, clerk, conformist, copier, copycat, counterfeiter, craftsman, creator, cuckoo, dauber, daubster, dissembler, dissimulator, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, impostor, ink spiller, inkslinger, letterer, maker, master, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, old master, parrot, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, phony, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, recording secretary, scribbler, scribe, scrivener, secretary, sheep, simulator, transcriber, word-slinger, writer

ROGET THESAURUS

copyist

Artist

N artist, painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver, master, old master, draftsman, draughtsman, copyist, dauber, hack, enamel, enameler, enamelist, caricaturist, historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter, engraver, Apelles, sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste, statuary, Phidias, Praxiteles, Royal Academician, photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician, camera buff, wildlife photographer, photo safari, with gun and camera.

Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.

Imitation

N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.