glossographer
(glɒˈsɒgrəfə(r))
Also glottographer.
[f. Gr. γλωσσογράϕος (f. γλωσσο- glosso- + -γραϕος, f. γράϕειν to write) + -er1. Cf. F. glossographe.]
A writer of glosses or commentaries.
| 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 457 Avicen and his glossographer. 1679 Blount Anc. Tenures Pref. 3 Some [words] I believe may pose the ablest Glossographer now living. 1771 Raper in Phil. Trans. LXI. 516 The Glossographer last quoted makes 9 Nummi equal to 3/4 of a Siliqua. 1818 R. Warner Epist. Curios. Ser. i. 171 note, Abel Boyer, a well-known glossographer. 1846 Grote Greece i. xxi. II. 275 note, In the verbal criticism of Homer the Alexandrine literati seem to have made a very great advance, as compared with the glossographers who preceded them. |