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Glossarist

noun
1.
A scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries.





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"Glossarist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Associated Words: glossary, glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology, lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography, terminology, paronomasia, pun, punning, onomatopoeoea, syncope, syncopation, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... unwarranted adoption of Speght's interpretation is "Dare, v. Sax. to stare." The reader should always be cautious how he takes upon trust a glossarist's sly fetch to win a cheap repute for learning, and over-ride inquiry by the mysterious letters Sax. or Ang.-Sax. tacked on to his exposition of an obscure word. There is no such Saxon vocable as dare, to stare. Again, what more frequent blunder ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various


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