Postglossator
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Postglossator is a noun meaning (historical, law) A legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
Meaning
(historical, law) A legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
Example Sentences
It would seem uncontroversial in an age of humanist philology to claim that the Corpus Juris Civilis in its pristine form and with its historical sense restored to it would be more authoritative than first the gloss, second the postglossators’ additions to the gloss, and finally the elucubrations of subsequent generations of jurists on the postglossators’ additions.
Word Forms
- postglossators
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include glossator, commentator, glosser, glossist, glossographer, glossarist.
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