scholiast
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/
scholiast (plural scholiasts)
- A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
- 1855, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume III, ch. 14:
- [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 1982 edition), p. 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’.
- 1855, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume III, ch. 14:
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