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Webster 1913 Edition


Commentary

Com′men-ta-ry

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Commentaries
(#)
.
[L.
commentarius
,
commentarium
, note book, commentary: cf. F.
commentaire
. See
Comment
,
Verb.
I.
]
1.
A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
This letter . . . was published by him with a severe
commentary
.
Hallam.
2.
A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; – usually in the plural;
as, Caesar’s
Commentaries
on the Gallic War
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Commentary

COMMENTARY

, n.
1.
A comment; exposition; explanation; illustration of difficult and obscure passages in an author.
2.
A book of comments or annotations.
3.
A historical narrative; a memoir or particular transactions, as the commentaries of Cesar.

COMMENTARY

,
Verb.
T.
To write notes upon.