Commentaries

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Commentary \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.


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              This letter . . . was published by him with a severe
              commentary.                           --Hallam.
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     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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