postglossator
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
Example Sentences
- "It would seem uncontroversial in an age of humanist philology to claim that the Corpus Juris Civilis in its pristine form and with its historical sense restored to it would be more authoritative than first the gloss, second the postglossators’ additions to the gloss, and finally the elucubrations of subsequent generations of jurists on the postglossators’ additions."