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scholiasts

scholiasts is the plural of scholiast.

Meaning of scholiast

Noun

scholiast (plural scholiasts)

  1. A scholar who writes commentary on the works of an author, especially one of the ancient commentators on classical authors.
    • [N]o pedantic quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts […] ever marred the effect of his grave and temperate discourses.1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

Questions about scholiasts

What is scholiasts the plural of?
Scholiasts is the plural of scholiast.

Words near scholiasts in the dictionary

  1. Scholey
  2. Scholfield
  3. scholia
  4. scholiast
  5. scholiastic
  6. scholiasts
  7. scholical
  8. scholied
  9. scholies
  10. scholion
  11. scholium

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