Forms: 6 -our, 7 -or, 7– -er. [f. COMMENT v. + -ER, -OR: cf. L. commentor, deviser, contriver, author.]
1. One who comments; a commentator. (Obs. in specific sense; frequent in 17th c.)
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.
1529. More, Heresyes, I. Wks. 152/1. He wold that the student of scripture shoulde lene to the commentours & vnto naturall reason.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. vii. 255. What Nazianzenes commentor sayes.
a. 1631. Donne, Sat., II. (R.). Slily, as any commenter goes by Hard words or Sense.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 51. Commenter on a Scotch Bishop’s Platonico-Calvinistic commentary on St. Peter.
† 2. An inventor, a concocter. Obs.
a. 1645. [see next].
