An expository article or treatise; a commentary.

In plural. A set of such comments, a commentary, an exposition; spec. an expository discourse or homily on a Gospel or Epistle, read or intended to…

An expository treatise, an exposition; a commentary. Obsolete.

A treatise consisting of a systematic series of comments or annotations on the text of a literary work; an expository treatise following the order…

An exposition, a commentary.

An explanation given; a way of interpreting or explaining; †a comment, a commentary (obsolete).

(a) An expository note, a comment, a gloss; (b) an expository treatise, a commentary. Obsolete.

A commentary, summary, or annotation in the margin of a text. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Scottish by-form of commentary, n.

Apparently a compositorial error for scholiast, n., to which the word is emended in a later edition of Cudworth's work.

A commentary written in response to the work of another writer. Obsolete. rare.

An annotation placed in the margin of a work (cf. margent, n. 1b). In quot. 1824 figurative: an explanatory indicator, a clue. Obsolete. rare.

Linguistics and Literary Theory. Language or text which is either intermediate, as between different language forms (cf. interlanguage, n.…