glossatorial

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English

Etymology

From glossator +‎ -ial.

Adjective

glossatorial (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of glossators.
    • 1926, Harold Dexter Hazeltine, “Roman and Canon Law in the Middle Ages”, in J. R. Tanner et al., editors, The Cambridge Medieval History, volumes 5, Contest of Empire and Papacy, page 738:
      The accumulated glossatorial learning of a century and a half was confusing, in the wealth of its details and in the variety of juridical opinions, to the practitioners in the courts.
    • 1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 50:
      It is highly revealing that Accursius in the famous passage to which Baldus refers here, and which denies the validity of the Donation, expressly rejects a solution in accordance with the facts (a quintessentially Glossatorial attitude) []