copyist

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
copyist
    n 1: someone employed to make written copies of documents and
         manuscripts [syn: {copyist}, {scribe}, {scrivener}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Copyist \Cop"y*ist\, n.
   A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "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

    

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