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scholiast|ˈskəʊlɪæst|
[ad. late L. scholiasta, a. late Gr. σχολιαστής, f. σχολιάζειν (see scholiaze v.), f. Gr. σχόλι-ον scholium. Cf. F. scoliaste (16th c. scholiaste), It. scoliaste.]
One who writes explanatory notes upon an author; esp. an ancient commentator upon a classical writer.
In quot. 1820 perh. misused in the sense of ‘schoolman’ or ‘scholastic’ (as if = G. scholast). The mistake is not uncommon: cf. Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v., where the sense is recognized (with a quot. from C. Bucke 1837).
1583Fulke Def. Tr. Script. iv. 137 They [the General Epistles] are not sent to any particular Church or persons, but to all in general, as the Greeke scholiast truly noteth. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 282 Which the Masoreths and Rabbinicall Scholiasts not attending, have often us'd to blurre the margent with Keri instead of Ketiv. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 143/2 The scholiast upon Thucydides tells us, Themistocles served the people of Corcyra. 1820Scott Monast. xxxi, This is no vain question, devised by dreaming scholiasts, on which they may whet their intellectual faculties until the very metal be wasted away. 1837Hallam Lit. Eur. i. iv. §20 In this academy a Greek press was established, where the scholiasts on Homer were printed. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt Introd., He let it pass, with all the discreetness of an experienced theologian or learned scholiast, preferring to point his whip at some object which could raise no questions. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 5 Least of all will the method of a scholiast be likely to serve him as a clue to the hidden things of Shakespeare.
fig.1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 41 With what pride did we hail her [the ship's] return! She was our scholiast upon Robinson Crusoe and the Mutiny of the Bounty. |