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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Scholiast

· Scho·li·ast · IPA /ˈskəʊ.lɪ.æst/
01 n. A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
  1. 1.
    A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
    “No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses.” Macaulay.