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‖ modistæ, n. pl.|məʊˈdɪstaɪ|
Also Modistæ.
[L.]
The collective name given to a number of later medieval grammarians who developed and expounded a system of Latin grammar wherein Priscian's word classes and categories were integrated into the framework of scholastic philosophy.
1903J. E. Sandys Hist. Classical Scholarship I. xxxii. 642 The work in which this philosophy of grammar was first laid down was entitled De Modis Significandi, and its teachers were called Modistae. 1951R. H. Robins Ancient & Mediaeval Grammatical Theory in Europe iii. 77 Later writers of Grammaticae Speculativae..are often referred to as a group by the name ‘Modistae’. 1963Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics IX. 41 This short paper will attempt to draw attention to some of the grammarians of the Middle Ages.., in particular to the group..now known as the Modistae. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoretical Linguistics i. 15 So many works were produced with the title ‘The Modes of Signifying’ (De modis significandi) that the grammarians of the period are often referred to collectively as ‘modistae’. 1971G. L. Bursill-Hall Speculative Grammars of Middle Ages 11 Martin of Dacia..was probably the first of the Modistae. 1973Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XVIII. 177 The modistae, linguists of the fourteenth century who developed the grammatica speculativa by relating the grammatical theories current during the early part of the Middle Ages to an Aristotelian framework. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VIII. 267/2 Before the modistae, grammar had not been viewed as a separate discipline but had been considered in conjunction with other studies or skills (such as criticism, preservation of valued texts, foreign-language learning). |
