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postglossators

postglossators is the plural of postglossator.

Meaning of postglossator

Noun

postglossator (plural postglossators)

  1. (historical) A legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
    • It would seem uncontroversial in an age of humanist philology to claim that the Corpus Juris Civilis in its pristine form and with its historical sense restored to it would be more authoritative than first the gloss, second the postglossators’ additions to the gloss, and finally the elucubrations...1992, Ian Maclean, Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law, →ISBN, page 94

Questions about postglossators

What is postglossators the plural of?
Postglossators is the plural of postglossator.

Words near postglossators in the dictionary

  1. postglenoid
  2. postglenoidal
  3. postglobular
  4. postglomerular
  5. postglossator
  6. postglossators
  7. postglottalize
  8. postglottalized
  9. postglottalizes
  10. postglottalizing
  11. postgnathal

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