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Definition of Glossator
1. n. A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.
Definition of Glossator
1. Noun. A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, specifically one who authored commentaries or glosses on legal texts (often the ''Corpus Juris'' of Justinian). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glossator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glossator
Literary usage of Glossator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga by Kuno Meyer, Dindsenchas, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Scél Túan maic Cairill (1897)
"... the statements of Bran's Voyage and of the glossator; the testimony of the
eleventh century prose texts; the poem ascribed to Muru of Donegal; ..."
2. Handbook of the Roman Law by Ferdinand Mackeldey, Moses Aaron Dropsie (1883)
"... then the rubric of the title in which the novel was contained in the glossator's
collection; after this the initial words of the paragraph by which the ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The whole verse Is perhaps the addition of an allegorizing glossator. ...
and glossator.'] A writer of glosses; a glossarist. ..."
4. The rule of S. Benet: Latin and Anglo-Saxon interlinear versionby Benedict, Henri Logeman by Benedict, Henri Logeman (1888)
"These additions are sometimes words that also occur in other Latin texts, so that
we may suppose the then glossator to have copied these from another Latin ..."
5. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"The glossator we may pretty confidently put to the date of the glossator or ...
The glossator who added the citations, and the theory-monger with his ..."
6. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"The glossator who added the citations, and the theory-monger with his Trojan-myth,
etc., ... for instance, the distinction between Snorri and the glossator, ..."
7. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms by Charles Augustus Briggs, Emilie Grace Briggs (1907)
"A glossator inserts before the creation of the animals an exclamation of wonder
... A late glossator, moved by what influence it is difficult to determine, ..."
8. The Text of the New Testament by Kirsopp Lake (1908)
"Thus he shows that the Western glossator had a knowledge of the conditions of
travel in those regions so intimate as to notice a point which has escaped the ..."
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