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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[LL. See 3d

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.

[R.]

“The . . . glossators of Aristotle.”

Milman.

Noun.

A writer of comments; a commentator. [Not used.

glossator ‎(plural glossators)

(historical) A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, specifically one who authored commentaries or glosses on legal texts (often the Corpus Juris of Justinian).