- (v.i.) A series of comments or annotations; especially, 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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