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A physician to comment on your malady.

Shak.

Critics . . . proceed to comment on
him.

Dryden.

I must translate and comment.

Pope.

Com"ment, v. t. To comment
on. [Archaic.] Fuller.

Com"ment, n. [Cf. OF.
comment.] 1. A remark, observation,
or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.

Their lavish comment when her name was
named.

Tennyson.

2. A note or observation intended to
explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book,
etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.

All the volumes of philosophy,

With all their comments.

Prior.

Com"men*ta*ry (?), n.; pl.
Commentaries (#). [L. commentarius,
commentarium, note book, commentary: cf. F.
commentaire. See Comment, v. i.]
1. 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.


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