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noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A writer of glosses, or comments. obsolete

    "To establish by law a thing wholly unlawful and dishonest , is an affirmation was never heard of before in any law , reason , philosophy , or religion , till it was raised by inconsiderate glossists from the mistake of this text"

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"To establish by law a thing wholly unlawful and dishonest , is an affirmation was never heard of before in any law , reason , philosophy , or religion , till it was raised by inconsiderate glossists from the mistake of this text"

Etymology

From gloss + -ist.

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