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Glossarial

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glos·sa·ry  (glôs-r, gls-)
n. pl. glos·sa·ries
A list of often difficult or specialized words with their definitions, often placed at the back of a book.

[Middle English glosarie, from Latin glssrium, from glssa, foreign word; see gloss2.]

glos·sari·al (glô-sâr-l, gl-) adj.
glossa·rist n.


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Still, its glossarial fervor, along with that of Tyndale and Geneva Bibles, did much to convince the makers of the Authorized Version (1611) that its notes should be confined to cross-references and alternate translations of tricky words.
[T]he book is very vulnerable to the kind of glossarial jigsaw-solver who must find form: pattern, decor, lamination, colourscheme.
This is accomplished in a number of ways, small and large--for example, by marking a given scene at its outset as ostensibly "by" one playwright in textual notes or commentary, by citing parallels only or largely to that playwright's work in the glossarial notes, etc.
 
 
 
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