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- noun Plural form of
glossarist .
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Examples
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-- The popular and provincial names of animals deserve more careful notice than they have received from glossarists.
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CHAUCER has the following expression which has a good deal puzzled the glossarists:
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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Moreover, according to the favourite principles of their time, the glossarists brought into prominence the double constitutive element of domicile (or, properly speaking, of acquired domicile): the material element
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The Roman theory was again restored to honour by the glossarists of the Bolognese School, expecially by Accursius in the beginning of the thirteenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Evidently the juridical value of these glosses for the teaching of canon law in our day has greatly lessened; historically, however, they still offer much precious information, The more eminent of the glossarists will be treated biographically, in their own places among the canonists of renown.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The canonists of Bologna in particular, favoured the method of the glossarists, and affixed to text and words the meaning which they should bear.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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"Zarrah," according to some glossarists, is the noun of unity of "Zarr," the young ones of the any, an antlet, which is said to weigh the twelfth part of a "Kitmír" = pedicle of the date0fruit, or the hundredth part of a grain of barley, or to have no weight at all.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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There are at least two passages in Shakspeare's plays where the word is used in this sense, but which appear to have been overlooked by his glossarists.
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