Scholiast
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scholiast is a noun meaning A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
Meaning
A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
Example Sentences
[N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.
[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’.
Word Forms
- scholiasts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fragment, commentator, classicist, scholy, scholarian, scholastical.
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