scholiast
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scholiast (plural scholiasts)
- A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
- 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.
- 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 8:
- [L]ike it or not, I was caught up once more in the scholiast’s game, paring popular notions of the ‘queer’ and ‘unearthly’ from notions of the ‘monstrous’.
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