Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who provides explanatory glosses, especially a scholar or scribe who writes notes in the margins of or between the lines of a text.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The writer of a gloss; a glossarist; a scholiast.
- noun Specifically, one of a class of jurists in the middle ages who wrote short notes or glosses on the Corpus Juris Civilis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
legal scholar of theMiddle Ages , specifically one who authored commentaries orglosses on legal texts (often the Corpus Juris of Justinian).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He is best known as a glossator of the legatine "Constitutions" of Cardinals
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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His views are further complicated by R. Moses ben Israel Isserles (Rema, 1525 or 1530 – 1572), the glossator of the Shulhan Arukh.
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As a medieval glossator said (to D. 48.2.7.2): “Once wicked, the accused (in the same kind of crime) is thereafter presumed to be wicked (malus).”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GAINES POST 1968
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Finally, Dr. Payne disposes effectually of the authenticity of the entire story by calling attention to the fact that the chapter referred to in the Compendium is marked plainly "_Additio_," without indicating whether this addition is from the pen of Gilbert or some later glossator.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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A glossator has added in LA the marginal note "Priests formerly wore cowls."
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The glossator, Aldred, states that the ornamentation was the work of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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A gloss translates the Latin text word by word, in the order of that text; so that the glossator can neither observe the natural English order nor in all cases preserve the English grammar; a fact which somewhat lessens its value, and must always be allowed for.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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Bogislaf XIV., who as a truth-loving, amicable, and pious glossator, has annotated so many places in our text, found this
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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We learn the history of its production from a very long note at the end of the manuscript, written by the hand of the glossator. [
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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"The last", Dr. Maitland continues, "is no private opinion of a glossator, it is a principle to which archbishops, bishops and clergy of the province of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
Gammerstang commented on the word glossator
(noun) - He that makes a glosse or comment to interpret the hard meaning of words or things.
--Edward Phillips' New World of English Words, 1598
January 16, 2018