scholy means A scholium. It carries an Arena rating of 1373, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scholy ranks #2,361 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #4,438 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #6,886 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #9,462 of 17,163 for Funniest Words.
Why “scholy” is a great word
A marginal annotation or commentary, or the act of writing one; a variant or borrowing from Latin scholium, from Greek σχόλιον (scholion, 'comment, note'), from σχολή (scholē, 'leisure, discussion'), with earliest evidence from 1593 in the writing of Richard Hooker. Unlike the formal scholium or the concise gloss, a scholy is the rarer, more intimate variant—the word itself a marginal note to its more established cousins. It is the faint ink bleeding into the fibrous edge of a folio, the thumb-worn corner where a reader paused to argue with Aristotle, the ghost of another's curiosity pressed into the white borders of the page—a testament to the conviction that no book is ever finished, only passed hand to hand in an endless conversation across the silent centuries.
verb
- To write scholia; to annotate.e.g.“16th century, Richard Hooker
The preacher should want a text, whereupon to scholy.
[…] his words therefore must be thus scholied […]”
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