A machine or rarely a person who makes copies automatically or mechanically without creative input, producing exact duplicates of original documents or materials.
From auto- (self) + copist (from Latin copia, abundance, in sense of copying). Emerged in the era of mechanical reproduction to describe automated copying systems.
Medieval monks were involuntary autocopists—they spent their entire lives hand-copying manuscripts, making them the human xerox machines of the Middle Ages, which is why the invention of the printing press freed them from this repetitive torture.
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