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articular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope.

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.

To write comments or notes upon; to make comments. [R.] Commentate upon it, and return it enriched. Lamb.

The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. [R.] The spirit of commentation. Whewell.

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

The office or occupation of a commentator.

One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.

Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. [Obs.] Warburton.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon.

A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

A writer of annotations; a commentator.

Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides. [Slang]

nces of corporations. Bacon. The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law. Addison.

. in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments. Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant! De Quincey.

so, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable." That which . . . we entitle patience. Shak.

expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope.