Commentary

1. 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.
2. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.