Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scholiast

Scholiast , noun

[Greek {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} a scholium: compare French scoliate. See Scholium.]

A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
No... quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts... ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. — Macaulay