单词 | scholiast |
释义 | scholiastn. A person who writes explanatory notes or commentary upon an author or text; esp. an ancient commentator who writes notes upon a classical Greek or Latin writer; (more generally) a scholar, a scholastic. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note > annotator scholiast1565 annotator1609 scholian1610 noter1644 scholiographer1662 annotationist1664 notist1670 notifier1683 scholiastic1684 notator1721 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare xii. 465 So shal he agree with Maximus the Greeke Scholiast vpon Dionysius. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. iv. 137 They [sc. the General Epistles] are not sent to any particular Church, or persons, but to all in general, as the Greeke scholiast truly noteth. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 25 Which the Masoreths and Rabbinicall Scholiasts not well attending, have often us'd to blurre the margent with Keri, instead of Ketiv. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Introd. 22 The Examiner, after he has cited this Scholiast on Aristophanes, thus flourishes. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 187 There, dim in clouds, the poreing Scholiasts mark. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 312 The scholiast upon Thucydides tells us, Themistocles served the people of Corcyra. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. vi. 160 This is no vain question, devised by dreaming scholiasts, on which they may whet their intellectual faculties until the very metal be wasted away. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 371 In this academy a Greek press was established, where the scholiasts on Homer were printed. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 41 With what pride did we hail her [sc. the ship's] return! She was our scholiast upon Robinson Crusoe and the Mutiny of the Bounty. 1911 F. W. Wright Stud. Menander i. 52 Without assuming a deliberate fallacy on the part of the scholiast, I suspect that some such process lay back of the gloss in Hesychius. 1946 R. Graves Poems 1938–45 xxxiv. 47 A scholiast explains this warm rejoinder, Which seems too manlike for Olympic use. 2012 telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 19 Jan. There are the usual glosses (when Arthur says ‘I have a conscience of a nothing, Duke’, a prim scholiast reminds us that this means ‘an erection for a vagina’). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565 |
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