scholiast

American  

[skoh-lee-ast] / ˈskoʊ liˌæst /

noun

1. an ancient commentator on the classics.

2. a person who writes scholia.

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scholiast British  

/ ˈskəʊlɪˌæst /

noun

1. a medieval annotator, esp of classical texts

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Other Word Forms

• scholiastic adjective

Etymology

Origin of scholiast

From the Greek word scholiastḗs, dating back to 1575–85. See scholium, -ast

Example Sentences

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

Perhaps the boldest is that of Cantorelli, that the annales were constructed not out of the tabula but out of the commentarii; but this is in conflict with the passage in the scholiast on Virgil.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

We believe Theobald's "babbled o' green fields" to be one of many instances in which, with reference to some one particular passage, the scholiast has proved himself worthy of and excelling his author.

From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George