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Definition of glossator in English: glossatornoun ɡlɒˈseɪtə historical A person who writes glosses, especially a scholarly commentator on the texts of classical, civil, or canon law. Example sentencesExamples - The examination of the glosses in this codex reveals that the student glossators of this work engaged in a dialectical relationship about how to approach this medieval textbook.
- The only sort of training I had as any kind of exegete or glossator was being taught for A-level how to read Shakespeare, Milton and Dickens.
- The author comes to the conclusion that glossators, using scholastic methodology, elaborated their own doctrine of contracts and pacts.
- Nicander is a gifted Homeric glossator, but he is neither zoologist nor toxicologist.
- Could we expect a replay of the achievements of the glossators and postglossators discussed earlier in this report?
Synonyms interpreter, transcriber, transliterator, paraphraser, decipherer
Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin, from glossare, from Latin glossa (see gloss2). Definition of glossator in US English: glossatornoun historical A person who writes glosses, especially a scholarly commentator on the texts of classical, civil, or canon law. Example sentencesExamples - Could we expect a replay of the achievements of the glossators and postglossators discussed earlier in this report?
- The examination of the glosses in this codex reveals that the student glossators of this work engaged in a dialectical relationship about how to approach this medieval textbook.
- Nicander is a gifted Homeric glossator, but he is neither zoologist nor toxicologist.
- The only sort of training I had as any kind of exegete or glossator was being taught for A-level how to read Shakespeare, Milton and Dickens.
- The author comes to the conclusion that glossators, using scholastic methodology, elaborated their own doctrine of contracts and pacts.
Synonyms interpreter, transcriber, transliterator, paraphraser, decipherer
Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin, from glossare, from Latin glossa (see gloss). |