Definition of "glossator" [glos•sa•tor]

• A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, specifically one who authored commentaries or glosses on legal texts (often the Corpus Juris of Justinian). (noun)

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• "He is best known as a glossator of the legatine "Constitutions" of Cardinals"
• "His views are further complicated by R. Moses ben Israel Isserles (Rema, 1525 or 1530 – 1572), the glossator of the Shulhan Arukh."
• "As a medieval glossator said (to D. 48.2.7.2): “Once wicked, the accused (in the same kind of crime) is thereafter presumed to be wicked (malus).”"