commentary
/ˈkɑ.mənˌtɛ.ɹi/ noun B2- A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
- A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum. · Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
- An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs. · We listened to the football commentary while watching the match.
Plural commentaries
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“Cæsar’s Commentaries,” said the bandit, “it is my favorite work.”
“It is possible,” said Morcerf; “my father has in his study a genealogical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made commentaries that would have greatly edified d’Hozier and Jaucourt.
From their beds of dried leaves or wolf-skins at the back of the chamber now arose the companions of the man who had been found by Albert de Morcerf reading Cæsar’s Commentaries, and by Danglars studying the Life of Alexander.
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