Definition of Scholia

1. Noun. A marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature).

Exact synonyms: Scholium
Generic synonyms: Marginalia

Definition of Scholia

1. n. pl. See Scholium.

Definition of Scholia

1. Noun. (plural of scholium) ¹

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Definition of Scholia

1. scholium [n] - See also: scholium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scholia

scholarly person
scholars
scholarship
scholarships
scholas
scholastic
scholastical
scholastically
scholasticals
scholasticate
scholasticates
scholasticism
scholasticisms
scholastick
scholastics
scholia (current term)
scholiast
scholiastic
scholiasts
scholiaze
scholical
scholion
scholium
scholiums
scholzite
school-age
school-age child
school-band
school-marm

Literary usage of Scholia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Comparatively few scholia have as yet been printed, though those of Clement, Origen, ... The tasks preliminary to a corpus of Biblical scholia are many and ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"Comparatively few scholia have as yet been printed, though those of Clement, Origen, ... The tasks preliminary to a corpus of Biblical scholia are many and ..."

3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"On the Old Testament, we believe, there are no antient scholia extant: but on the ... I. scholia are short notes on antient authors, and are of tira kinds ..."

4. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"manner of early parchment and later paper manuscripts with which we are familiar, and that the scholia in these were relatively brief and meager. ..."

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