noun

• A person who writes glosses, especially a scholarly commentator on the texts of classical, civil, or canon law.

  ‘The only sort of training I had as any kind of exegete or glossator was being taught for A-level how to read Shakespeare, Milton and Dickens.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Nicander is a gifted Homeric glossator, but he is neither zoologist nor toxicologist.’
  • ‘The examination of the glosses in this codex reveals that the student glossators of this work engaged in a dialectical relationship about how to approach this medieval textbook.’
  • ‘Could we expect a replay of the achievements of the glossators and postglossators discussed earlier in this report?’
  • ‘The author comes to the conclusion that glossators, using scholastic methodology, elaborated their own doctrine of contracts and pacts.’

  Synonyms

  interpreter, transcriber, transliterator, paraphraser, decipherer