glossatorial

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adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of glossators.

Scrabble 13

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adjectiveglossatorial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, relating to, or characteristic of glossators.

    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.

    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
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    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) […]

    1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 50

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glossatorial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glossatorial

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