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glossator (plural glossators)
(historical) A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, specifically one who authored commentaries or glosses on legal texts (often the Corpus Juris of Justinian).
• glossatrix
Source: Wiktionary
Glos*sa"tor, n. Etym: [LL. See 3d Gloss.]
Definition: A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator. [R.] "The . . . glossators of Aristotle." Milman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States