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scholiast

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/Part of speech nounSorted achilosstStarts with SEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

Word origin

From Late Latin scholiasta, from Byzantine Greek σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs), from σχολιάζειν (skholiázein), from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion).

Used in a sentence

  • [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’.

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