▪ I. † ˈscholy, n. Obs.
Also 6–7 scholie; 6 pl. schollies.
[Anglicized form of scholium. Cf. F. scolie (in 16th c. scholie).]
= scholium.
| 1549 E. Becke Bible (1551) Ded., One..commodious Byble is put furth wyth certayn sundry Prologues, schollies, or briefe Annotations. 1570 Billingsley Euclid title, Whereunto are annexed certaine Scholies, Annotations, and Inuentions, of the best Mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. viii. §2 That Scholie had neede of a verie fauourable Reader and a tractable. a 1697 Aubrey Lives (1898) I. 100, I have added plaine declarations and examples, manifold additions, scholies, annotations, and inventions which I have gathered. |
▪ II. † ˈscholy, v. Obs.
[f. scholy n.]
1. trans. To write scholia upon; to annotate.
| 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. viii. §16 The dutie of their teachers..must needes be somewhat more, then only to read the sentences of scripture, and then paraphrastically to scholie them. 1612 T. James Corrupt. Scripture iv. 51 His Epistles are likewise censured and scholied in 2. places. |
2. intr. To comment.
| 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxii. §7 The very chiefest cause of committing the sacred word of God vnto bookes, is surmised to haue bene, least the Preacher should want a text whereupon to scholie. 1641 J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 7, I have prefaced and scholied sufficiently unto the Text, I come now to seek out [etc.]. |