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Commentary
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What's The Definition Of Commentary?
[n] a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Commentary: comment Related Terms | Find terms related to Commentary: affix | allonge | analysis | annotation | apparatus criticus | appendix | coda | codicil | comment | commentation | critical review | criticism | critique | editorial | enclitic | envoi | epilogue | exegesis | footnote | gloss | infix | interlineation | interpolation | leader | leading article | marginalia | notation | note | note of explanation | notice | obiter dictum | observation | postscript | prefix | proclitic | remark | report | review | rider | running commentary | scholia | scholium | suffix | tail | word of explanation | write-up See Also | annotation | notation | note | statement Commentary In Webster's Dictionary \Com"men*ta*ry\, n.; pl. {Commentaries}. [L.
commentarius, commentarium, note book, commentary: cf. F.
commentaire. See {Comment}, v. 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.
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