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COMMENTARY, n. 1. A comment; exposition; explanation; illustration of difficult and obscure passages in an author. 2. A book of comments or annotations. 3. A historical narrative; a memoir or particular transactions, as the commentaries of Cesar. COMMENTARY, v.t. To write notes upon.