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Lexicographically close words:
commensurable; commensurate; commensuration; comment; commentaries; commentator; commentators; commented; commenting; comments
  1. Such is the commentary upon the words, "treating the combination as a single term;" in other words, such the difference between a compound word and two words.

  2. They are almost all taken from editions wherein either a translation or a full commentary can be found by reference.

  3. It is a running commentary upon the orthographical part of Dr.

  4. His commentary on the New Testament, in which he corrected the errors of the Vulgate by the aid of the Greek text, although subsequently put in the index by Paul IV.

  5. In his commentary on the Æneid he speaks of magic as a forbidden science, of whose forty different varieties he gives a curious classification.

  6. It is one of two copies of the Latin version of Theodore of Mopsuestia's Commentary on the Pauline Epistles.

  7. In his preface to the Commentary on Sophonius.

  8. One of these was a commentary on the Arithmetica of Diophantus.

  9. It is the general opinion that this was but a commentary on the tables of Ptolemy, in which event it is still possible that it may be found incorporated in the work of her father, Theon, on the same subject.

  10. It is generally supposed that this was an original work; but there are some who think it was but a commentary on the tables of Ptolemy.

  11. The ideal Life of Jesus of the close of the nineteenth century is the Life which Heinrich Julius Holtzmann did not write--but which can be pieced together from his commentary on the Synoptic Gospels and his New Testament Theology.

  12. A renewed study of it, aided by De Wette's commentary and Neander's Life of Jesus, had made him "doubtful about his doubts regarding the genuineness and credibility of this Gospel.

  13. Strauss explains that in consequence of reading de Wette's commentary and Neander's Life of Jesus he had begun to feel some hesitation about his former doubts regarding the genuineness and credibility of the Fourth Gospel.

  14. There was never a poet whose finest work needs such a running commentary of discredit as Pope's.

  15. He may be said, indeed, to be the only great poet in reading whom the commentary is as necessary as the text.

  16. A curious commentary this on the Amir's protestation of loyalty.

  17. The 15th century has the honour of composing the great commentary on the text of the Canon, grouping around it all that theory had imagined, and all that practice had observed.

  18. The larger commentary was an innovation of Averroes; for Avicenna, copied by Albertus Magnus, gave under the rubrics furnished by Aristotle works in which, though the materials were borrowed, the grouping was his own.

  19. On the History of Animals no commentary at all exists, and Plato's Republic is substituted for the then inaccessible Politics.

  20. A Commentary on the Epistles for the Sundays and other Holy Days of the Christian Year.

  21. Mr. Sadler's Commentary is decidedly one of the most unhackneyed and original of any we have.

  22. A Commentary on the Gospels for the Sundays and other Holy Days of the Christian Year.

  23. Aristotle's authority was of great weight; he was called by an autonomasia, the Philosopher; a good commentary of his works was considered the highest point to be attained in these matters.

  24. What would now be the condition of Europe, what respect would woman now enjoy, if Luther, the founder of Protestantism, had succeeded in inspiring society with the indifference which he shows on this point in his commentary on Genesis?

  25. This parallel explains better than any commentary the immense progress of morality and public conscience under the influence of Christianity.

  26. Perhaps our best commentary is the history of the Church.

  27. Here, again, our best commentary is the history of the Church, and especially the first chapter of that history as it is written in the Acts of the Apostles.

  28. It is indeed a pathetic commentary on the weariness and restlessness of life that with so many rest should almost have come to be a synonym for blessedness.

  29. And the best commentary on the saying is just His own life; for He had nothing.

  30. It contains the book Nissim, a philosophical treatise on the fundamental teachings of Judaism, together with a philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch by R.

  31. I refer to the thirteen articles embodied in his first work, The Commentary to the Mishnah.

  32. This letter may be illustrated by a few parallels taken from the appendix to Nachmanides' Commentary to the Pentateuch, which contains some rather incoherent notes which the author seems to have jotted down when he arrived in Jerusalem.

  33. What Nachmanides meant by maintaining that all knowledge and wisdom were "the fruits of the Torah, or the fruits of these fruits," will be best seen from his Commentary on the Pentateuch.

  34. Moses Margalith, the famous author of a commentary on the Talmud of Jerusalem.

  35. His studies on this subject form a kind of introduction to his commentary on Job, which he finished in the year 1405.

  36. These three works form the oldest Rabbinic commentary on Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

  37. I have already made use of this Commentary in the preceding quotations, but, being the greatest of the works of Nachmanides, it calls for some special attention by itself.

  38. There he not only completed his Commentary on the Pentateuch, but also erected synagogues, and engaged in organising communities, whose tone he tried to elevate both by his lectures and by his sermons.

  39. The rationalists write treatises on Maimonides' philosophical works, whilst the German Talmudists add commentary to commentary.

  40. To consider these difficulties in detail would be to write a commentary on the first eleven chapters.

  41. In his Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics he aims at showing how a Pythagorean or a Platonist would successfully answer Aristotle's objections.

  42. Pappus wrote a description of the world, and a commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest, beside a work on geometry, published under the name of his Mathematical Collections.

  43. However, I was invariably cold and distant, and Glanville confirmed rather than diminished my suspicions, by making no commentary on my behaviour, and imitating it in the indifference of his own.

  44. Detailed commentary of a high order of scholarship is furnished by Walter Malins Rose's "Notes" to the Lawyers' Edition of the United States Reports, 13 vols.

  45. No commentator," he wrote, "ever followed the text more faithfully, or ever made a commentary more accordant with its strict intention and language.

  46. The enclosed commentary on it--based on the Tasso biography of Pier Antonio Serassi--I beg you to print on your concert programme in a good English translation.

  47. I, on my part, shall furnish a kind of commentary to his work.

  48. Rather fine that--even if as a commentary on the wakeful hours a little acid.

  49. Sidenote: Wyclif and the Lollards] The career of this man is a striking commentary upon the difference between England and continental Europe in the Middle Ages.

  50. Mantuan Muse:' the poetry of Virgil, which Pope thinks the best commentary on Homer.

  51. He smiled and began at once on the "old days," as he now called them, a sad commentary on our drifting days.

  52. He sat at his writing-table, busy as usual with his commentary upon the Book of Job.

  53. As a practical and devotional commentary it did not perhaps attain to the permanent popularity of Matthew Henry's commentary, and in point of erudition and acuteness it is not equal to that of Adam Clarke.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commentary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affix; analysis; annotation; appendix; coda; codicil; comment; commentary; criticism; critique; description; editorial; exegesis; explanation; exposition; gloss; infix; interpolation; leader; marginalia; notation; note; notice; observation; postscript; prefix; remark; report; review; rider; scholium; suffix; tail