Also 7 adn-. [a. L. annotātor, n. of agent f. annotāre to ANNOTATE: see -TOR. Cf. mod.Fr. annotateur.] One who annotates or writes notes to a text; a commentator.
1665. J. Spencer, Prodigies, 202 (J.). The Speech of our learned and pious Annotator.
1668. (title) Catalogue of our English Writers of the Old and New Testament … whether Commentators, Elucidators, Adnotators, Expositors.
1764. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), II. 92. All the author’s friends shall be the friends of the annotator.
1808. Colebrooke, Vedas, in Asiat. Res., VIII. 481. A crowd of annotators whose works expound every passage in the original gloss.
