scholiast
Americannoun
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an ancient commentator on the classics.
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a person who writes scholia.
noun
Other Word Forms
- scholiastic adjective
Etymology
Origin of scholiast
From the Greek word scholiastḗs, dating back to 1575–85. See scholium, -ast
Example Sentences
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Assistants searched diligently, but could find no Richard Kerr; Shakespeare had meant Conservative Author Russell Kirk, the neo-Burkean scholiast.
From Time Magazine Archive
This calendar term was first suggested in 775 by the English scholiast, Bede; came into general use about 1000.
From Time Magazine Archive
This writer was Architect Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, scholiast, mediaevalist, deeply religious "minister of art," apostle of the Gothic restoration in the New World.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the great Verulam caught the infectious ingenuity; and, in “the wisdom of the ancients,” explains everything with the skill of a great Homeric scholiast.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
Don’t you imagine, my conceited young scholiast, that there is nothing to be seen or studied that does not exist in books.
From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by Overend, William Heysham
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