glossator

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  1. The writer of a gloss; a glossarist; a scholiast. And if you ask how many will do it, courteous John Semeca, the learned glossator, will tell you. Boyle, Works, VI. 311. The whole verse is perhaps the addition of an allegorizing glossator. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 706. The codified law—Manu and his glossators—embraced originally a much smaller body of usage than had been imagined. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 7.
  2. Specifically, one of a class of jurists in the middle ages who wrote short notes or glosses on the Corpus Juris Civilis.

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  1. = French glossateur (Old French gloseor, gloseur) = Spanish glosador = Italian glosatore, glossatore, from Middle Latin glossator, from glossare, gloss, explain, from Late Latin glossa, a gloss: see gloss.
 

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