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One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.

A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.

The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).

etation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary. All this, without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. T. Baker.

A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt.

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator. [R.] "The . . . glossators of Aristotle." Milman.

A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator. L. Addison.

A writer of comments. [Obs.] Milton.

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.

A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes. [R.] Harvey.

The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

Learned or literary men. See Literatus. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. Craik.

A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. Felton.

An announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks; as, book notices; theatrical notices.

To make a remark; to comment; -- generally with on or upon. I have barely quoted... without observing upon it. Pope.

A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasi…

us; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. How commentators each dark passage shun. Young.