Definitions for scriptorium

scriptorium scrip·to·ri·um

Spelling: [skrip-tawr-ee-uh m, -tohr-]
IPA: /skrɪpˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr-/

Scriptorium is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 648 anagrams from letters in scriptorium (ciimoprrstu).

Definitions for scriptorium

noun

  1. a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.

Origin of scriptorium

1765-75; Medieval Latin scrīptōrium; see script, -tory2

Examples for scriptorium

The scriptorium is said to have been usually over the chapter-house.

What went on behind the door of the tiny scriptorium the boarders could only guess.

The little Doctor shut the door of the scriptorium and lit the gas.

The hardships of the scriptorium were greatest, of course, in winter.

The scriptorium had been degraded into a sickening school of journalism.

He set all in order in the scriptorium where he had toiled for five long years.

He would go back to the scriptorium, and all would be as it had been before.

The care of the library and the scriptorium was intrusted to the librarian.

Estates were often granted for the support of the scriptorium.

The scriptorium of the Cathedral was an important department, and was ably governed.

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