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  • noun Plural form of glosser.

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Examples

  • And while the old media likes to focus on content aggregators and glossers like Gawker, they don't like to talk as much about the scoops that "guys in their pajamas" come up with.

    Bart Motes: Gawker's Big Media Heist 2009

  • And herein may I very well submit my opinion to the judgment of learned lawyers, presidents, counsellors, advocates, procurers, attorneys, and other glossers and commentators on the venerable rubric, De frigidis et maleficiatis.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • And herein may I very well submit my opinion to the judgment of learned lawyers, presidents, counsellors, advocates, procurers, attorneys, and other glossers and commentators on the venerable rubric, De frigidis et maleficiatis.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Wo be unto those glossers that corrupt the text, pervert the meaning of these words: who attempt to expound the covenant by their own practice, and will not regulate their practice by the covenant.

    The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

  • Did not the life of Archbishop Williams prove otherwise, I should have inferred from these Sermons that Hacket from his first boyhood had been used to make themes, epigrams, copies of verses, and the like, on all the Sunday feasts and festivals of the Church; had found abundant nourishment for this humour of points, quirks, and quiddities in the study of the Fathers and glossers; and remained a 'junior soph' all his life long.

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

  • And herein may I very well submit my opinion to the judgment of learned lawyers, presidents, counsellors, advocates, procurers, attorneys, and other glossers and commentators on the venerable rubric, De frigidis et maleficiatis.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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