scholy

English

Noun

scholy (plural scholies)

1. (obsolete) A scholium.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     He therefore which made us to live hath also taught us to pray , to the end that speaking unto the Father in the Son's own prescript form without scholy or gloss of ours, we may be sure that we utter nothing which God will either disallow or deny.

Verb

scholy (third-person singular simple present scholies, present participle scholying, simple past and past participle scholied)

1. (obsolete, rare) To write scholia; to annotate.
   • 16th century, Richard Hooker

     The preacher should want a text, whereupon to scholy.

     […] his words therefore must be thus scholied […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scholy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)