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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.

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.

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

The result of the labors of a commentator.

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

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.

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

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

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 a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

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.

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

A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.