A note or comment inserted at the foot of the text. Hence Foot-note v., to furnish with a foot-note or foot-notes; to comment on in a foot-note. Also Foot-noted ppl. a., Foot-noting vbl. sb.
1841. Savage, Dict. Printing, 88. Bottom notes.… They are also termed Foot Notes.
1864. Reader, 21 May, 645. A supplemental little poem … extensively footnoted. Ibid. The result of all this … footnoting and appendix-noting, is that the volume has a most chaotic and bewildering look.
1875. E. White, Life in Christ, IV. xxiv. (1878), 360. In proof of this, it will not suffice to refer in a footnote to the passages in the Phædon where these words occur.
1893. N. & Q., Ser. VIII. III. 190/1. In the edition revised by himself Junius foot-notes a passing attack on Chatham thus: ‘Yet Junius has been called the partizan of Lord Chatham.’
