glossist

English

Etymology

From gloss +‎ -ist.

Noun

glossist (plural glossists)

1. (obsolete) A writer of glosses, or comments.
   • 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     To establish by law a thing wholly unlawful and dishonest , is an affirmation was never heard of before in any law , reason , philosophy , or religion , till it was raised by inconsiderate glossists from the mistake of this text

References

“glossist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.