scholiastic, a. and n. rare.
(skəʊlɪˈæstɪk)
[f. scholiast + -ic.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to a scholiast. † b. n. ? A scholiast (obs.).
| 1684 N. S. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible App. 292 There is nothing that Simon has written concerning the public Notaries of the Hebrew Nation, but what these Diminitive Saints and nice Stomack'd Scholiasticks are extreamly offended at. 1891 Saintsbury Polit. Verse Introd. 15 They require..a rather unusual amount of scholiastic annotation to render them intelligible to generations not their own. |