Commentary
['kɒmənt(ə)rɪ] or ['kɑməntɛri]
Definition
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Comment.[2]. Book of comments.[3]. Memoir, familiar narrative.
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Examples
- With which commentary on human life, indicating an experience of it not exclusively his own, he made the best of his way to the end of his journey. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As a practical commentary on the liberal social theory which he had just favoured me by illustrating, Mr. Fairlie's cool request rather amused me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a very considerable amount of Greek scholarship, and of written criticism and commentary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the commentary upon it now indelibly written in his handsome face made it far more distressing than it used to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sir Percival's angry commentary on his friend's desertion of him had not produced the slightest effect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Your answer requires a commentary, he said; it is not clear. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Not his merit that he don't cheat me,' was Mr Fledgeby's commentary delivered with a wink, 'but my precaution. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The one seems naturally to follow, like a running commentary, on the other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After this internal commentary on the Prior's speech, he raised his eyes, and replied to the question which had been put. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And then, in her sweet simple way, George's mother made commentaries to the boy upon this affecting story. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mortimer laughed again, with his usual commentaries of 'How CAN you be so ridiculous, Eugene! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was through the commentaries of Averro?s that Aristotelian science became known in Europe du ring the Middle Ages. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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