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glossatorial

glossatorial adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of glossators.

Adjective

glossatorial (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of glossators.
    • The accumulated glossatorial learning of a century and a half was confusing, in the wealth of its details and in the variety of juridical opinions, to the practitioners in the courts.1926, Harold Dexter Hazeltine, “Roman and Canon Law in the Middle Ages”, in J. R. Tanner et al., editors, The Cambridge Medieval History, volumes 5, Contest of Empire and Papacy, page 738
    • It is highly revealing that Accursius in the famous passage to which Baldus refers here, and which denies the validity of the Donation, expressly rejects a solution in accordance with the facts (a quintessentially Glossatorial attitude) […]1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 50

Origin of glossatorial

From glossator + -ial.

Words that rhyme with glossatorial

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Questions about glossatorial

What does glossatorial mean?
Glossatorial means of, relating to, or characteristic of glossators.
What part of speech is glossatorial?
Glossatorial is an adjective.

Words near glossatorial in the dictionary

  1. glossarizes
  2. glossarizing
  3. glossary
  4. glossas
  5. glossator
  6. glossatorial
  7. glossators
  8. glossatory
  9. glossatrices
  10. glossatrix
  11. Glossbrenner

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