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commentative

[kom-uh n-tey-tiv]
adjective
  1. of or relating to comment or commentary.
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Origin of commentative

First recorded in 1710–20; commentat(or) + -ive
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Historical Examples

  • Colonial literature is a prolongation of the parental literature and is at first commentative and imitative of that.

    Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899

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