Commentary

3 definitions found

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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [syn: {comment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "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