\Scho"li*ast\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a scholium: cf. F.
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.