scholiast
- n a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)
- This writer was Architect Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, scholiast, mediaevalist, deeply religious "minister of art," apostle of the Gothic restoration in the New World.
- Assistants searched diligently, but could find no Richard Kerr; Shakespeare had meant Conservative Author Russell Kirk, the neo-Burkean scholiast.
- This calendar term was first suggested in 775 by the English scholiast, Bede; came into general use about 1000.