Commenter, -or. World English Historical Dictionary

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Forms: 6 -our, 7 -or, 7– -er. [f. COMMENT v. + -ER, -OR: cf. L. commentor, deviser, contriver, author.]

1

  1.  One who comments; a commentator. (Obs. in specific sense; frequent in 17th c.)

2

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 293. Also the commentor Eth., 50. [seyth] þat Socrates … seide Men of Athene mowe dampne Socrates but þey mowe not make him unriȝtful.

3

1529.  More, Heresyes, I. Wks. 152/1. He wold that the student of scripture shoulde lene to the commentours & vnto naturall reason.

4

1617.  Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. vii. 255. What Nazianzenes commentor sayes.

5

a. 1631.  Donne, Sat., II. (R.). Slily, as any commenter goes by Hard words or Sense.

6

1825.  Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 51. Commenter on a Scotch Bishop’s Platonico-Calvinistic commentary on St. Peter.

7

  † 2.  An inventor, a concocter. Obs.

8

a. 1645.  [see next].

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