glossator
(glɒˈseɪtə(r))
Also 4 glosatour, 7, 9 glossater.
[a. med.L. glōssātor (cf. F. glossateur), agent-n. f. glōssāre to gloss, f. glōssa gloss n.1]
A writer of glosses; a commentator; spec. one of the mediæval commentators on the texts of Civil and Canon Law.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 258 Þe wordis of þes glosatouris passiþ Goddis lawe. 1550 Hooper Jonas v. 122 b, The glossator interpreteth these wordes in y⊇ Canon of the Masse (Jube hec perferri). 1593 Bell Motives Romish Faith Pref. (1605) 4 The Popish parasites, the glossators of the Canons, ascribe more magnificall..titles unto the Pope. 1619 Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent viii. (1629) 816 Hee forbade all Glossators, and Commentators to expound it. 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 29 In this Respect the Glossators Opinion must be false and erroneous in Point of Law. 1822 T. Taylor Apuleius vii. 164 note, These words were written by some glossator. 1886 I. M. Rigg in Dict. Nat. Biog. VI. 145 The Summa or Manual of the civil law compiled by the celebrated glossator, Azo of Bologna. |
Hence glossaˈtorial a., of the nature of glosses.
| 1899 Strachan in Philol. Soc. Trans. Jan., From the rest of the glossatorial literature [sc. besides the Würzburg Glosses] have been given only instances which [etc.]. |