[see -SHIP.] The office or performance of a commentator.
1765. B. Lowth, Lett. Warburton, 89. A Quack in Commentatorship, and a Mountebank in Criticism.
1839. Maginn, in Fraser’s Mag., XX. 253. A revived zeal for commentatorship on Shakespeare.
1882. Seeley, Nat. Relig., I. iii. 55. Those who confound commentatorship with philosophy.
