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scholy

scholy noun: a scholium.

Noun

scholy (plural scholies)

  1. (obsolete) A scholium.
    • He therefore which made us to live hath also taught us to pray , to the end that speaking unto the Father in the Son's own prescript form without scholy or gloss of ours, we may be sure that we utter nothing which God will either disallow or deny.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

Verb

scholy (third-person singular simple present scholies, present participle scholying, simple past and past participle scholied)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To write scholia; to annotate.
    • 16th century, Richard Hooker
      The preacher should want a text, whereupon to scholy.
      […] his words therefore must be thus scholied […]

Forms of scholy

Noun
pluralscholies
Verb
third-person singular presentscholies
present participlescholying
past participlescholied
pastscholied

Questions about scholy

What does scholy mean?
Scholy means a scholium.
What part of speech is scholy?
Scholy can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of scholy?
The plural of scholy is scholies.

Words near scholy in the dictionary

  1. Scholtens
  2. Scholtes
  3. Scholteses
  4. Scholtz
  5. Scholtzes
  6. scholy
  7. Scholz
  8. scholzite
  9. Schomaker
  10. Schomakers
  11. Schomburg

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