glossist en · NOUN
Etymology
From gloss + -ist.
Meanings
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(obsolete) A writer of glosses, or comments.
To establish by law a thing wholly unlawful and dishonest , is an affirmation was never heard of before in any law , reason , philosophy , or religion , till it was raised by inconsiderate glossists from the mistake of this text
1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
Forms
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| glossists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |