decipherer vs glossator

decipherer

noun
  • A person or function that deciphers. 

glossator

noun
  • One who writes glosses. 

  • A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, (specifically) one who authored glosses on legal texts (especially the Corpus Juris of Justinian), typically distinguished from the later commentators who wrote in extended prose and adopted a more pragmatic form of jurisprudence. 

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