scholiast
Americannoun
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an ancient commentator on the classics.
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a person who writes scholia.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of scholiast
From the Greek word scholiastḗs, dating back to 1575–85. See scholium, -ast
Example Sentences
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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
Assistants searched diligently, but could find no Richard Kerr; Shakespeare had meant Conservative Author Russell Kirk, the neo-Burkean scholiast.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It was torn in four neat pieces; the text, though corrupt, was fairly legible, and left little to the ingenuity of the scholiast.
From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by Sinclair, May
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