glossaristn.
/ˈɡlɒsərɪst/, U.S. /ˈɡlɔsərəst/, /ˈɡlɑsərəst/ 1. One who writes a gloss or commentary.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > gloss > writer of glosses
glossatorc1380
glozer1380
glosser1603
glossographer1607
glossist1641
glottographer1660
glossary?1706
glossarist1778
glossograph1885
glossarian1887
1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. ix. 169 The glossarist I take to be Philip de Pergamo, a prior at Padua; who wrote a most elaborate Moralisation on Cato.
1810 D. Stewart Philos. Ess. v. iii. 188 When the speculations of the mere scholar, or glossarist, presume to usurp..the honours of Philosophy.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 238 All the counties in England seemed to rise against the luckless glossarist.
1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 275 (note) Says the glossarist—‘it was fifty’.
2. One who compiles a glossary.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > glossary > one who compiles
glossarist1782
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > gloss > compiler of
glossarist1782
1782 T. Tyrwhitt Vind. App. Rowley 162 The interpretations assigned to them by those two Glossarists [Speght and Skinner].
1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 11 289 The glossarist should everywhere refer to, or record, the true spelling.
1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 159 The play [of the Sacrament] contains..a number of words and forms interesting to the English glossarist.
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