glos·sa·ry

(glô′sə-rē, glŏs′ə-)

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 glōssārium, from glōssa, foreign word; see gloss².]

glos·sar′i·al (glô-sâr′ē-əl, glŏ-) adj.

glos′sa·rist n.

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Noun

glossarist - a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries

scholiast - a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

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McLaughlin wrote, "Walter Henry Snell, or Wally as he was usually called, was an unusual combination of scientist, athlete, mycological artist and glossarist who might not have pursued a career in science except for an accident in his last undergraduate baseball game."

Wally Snell

1198; a glossarist, nor the author of Decretum); possibly Johannes Monachus Cardinalis (d.

Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five Student Orations from the University of Salamanca [*]

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