Exscribo, exscribis, pen. prod. exscripsi, exscriptum, exscribere. Varro. To write out.Exscribere alicui. Colum. To write out the copie of a thing to one.Exscribere patrem similitudine.Plin. iun.To resemble or bes verie like his father.Exsibilo. Vide EXIBILO.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-scrībo (excr-), psi, ptum (btum), 3, v. a., to write out, write off, copy.I.Lit. (rare but class.): tabulas in foro summa hominum frequentia exscribo; adhibentur in exscribendo ex conventu viri primarii, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, 189: complura exscripta de Magonis libris, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 18: ex Plauti comoedia duos versus exscripsimus, Gell. 3, 3, 8.—B.Transf.1. Of paintings, to copy: imagines exscribere et pingere, Plin. Ep. 4, 28, 1.—2. In gen., to write or note down: nomina exscripta, Plaut. Rud. prol. 15: bonos in aliis tabulis exscriptos habet, id. ib. 21.— II.Trop., to copy or take after, to resemble: filia totum patrem mira similitudine exscripserat, Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 9.