Commentarial. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. [f. L. commentāri-us + -AL.] Relating to, or characteristic of, commentaries. Hence Commentarialism, commentarial method.

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1856.  J. Grote, in Cambr. Ess., 97. A considerable part … of the … knowledge of some classical students … having come into the mind on no other method … than the simple commentarial one. Ibid., 92. The literary method has … the danger of degenerating into loose commentarialism.

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