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scholion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• skōʹlĭŏn
• /ˈskəʊlɪɒn/

Etymology

From New Latin scholion, from Ancient Greek σχόλῐον (skhólĭon, “interpretation, comment”).

Meanings

1. A scholium.
   • The opinion that the Lady is a Church is mentioned…by an ancient scholion. 1882, Farrar, Early Chr., volume II, page 487, note:
   • A judgment which follows immediately from another, is sometimes called a Corollary or Consectary. One which does not belong to the science in which it appears, but is taken from another, is called a Lemma. One which illustrates in some way the science where it appears, but is not an integrant part of it, is a Scholion. 1842, William Thomson, Outline of the Laws of Thought, London · Oxford: William Pickering · William Graham, PART II. — JUDGMENTS. (pages 53–80), § 39. — Corollary or Consectary, Lemma, Scholion., page 80:
   • An ancient Scholion, recently discovered, names four poets who worked under that prince [Pisistratus]. 1858, Gladstone, Homer, volume I, page 53:
   • Hereunto haue I added a certain Glosse, or scholion, for thexposition of old wordes. 1579, E. K., Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Dedication:

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