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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] a scholium: cf. F.

scoliate

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A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.

No . . . quotations from Talmudists and

scholiasts

. . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses.

Macaulay.

Noun.

[Gr. See scholium.]

A commentator or annotator; one who writes notes upon the works of another for illustrating his writings.

scholiast ‎(plural scholiasts)

A scholar who writes commentaries on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators of classical authors.
- 1855, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume III, ch. 14:
  [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.
- 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book (Abacus 1982 edition), p. 8:
  [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’.