15 Verbs to Use for the Word commentator

And when the pleasures of novelty have ceased, let him attempt exactness and read the commentators.

As a servant, exclaims our commentator.

"Many whereof have escaped both the commentator and poet himself.

For this, consult all the biblical commentators.

There seems to be something paradoxical in the idea that the older the decision the better the lawthe more ancient the commentator, the profounder the wisdom of his axioms.

His learning was not secular merely; his library was well stocked with works on theology; he was familiar with the questions discussed in them; the New Testament, in the original, was a part of his daily reading; he had examined the dark or doubtful passages of Scripture, and they who were much in his society needed no more satisfactory commentator.

All three lectures, observes a commentator, "tell men and women of the ideals they should set before them; how to read and to build character under the inspiration of the nobility of the past, fitting one's self for such great society; how to develop noble womanhood; how to bear one's self toward the wonder of life, toward one's work in the world, and toward one's duty to others.

* Falstaff's "Buck-Basket" has puzzled the commentators; but Dr. Jamieson thus explains it:Bouk is the Scotch word for a lye used to steep foul linen in, before it is washed in water; the buckbasket, therefore, is the basket employed to carry clothes, after they have been bouked, to the washing-place.

Among these must clearly be reckoned the commentator E. K., who may be identified with one Edward Kirke with all but absolute certainty.

Seated in their libraries, in the midst of their ponderous octavos, their Roman and black-letter volumes, they reject with disdain the commentators, the opinions of the jurists of the present century; and brushing away the cobwebs and dust from the covers of their treasured relics of bygone ages, they clasp them in a loving embrace close to their hearts, exclaiming, 'These are my jewels.'

The prolific hint of "E.K." set the commentators at work,but hitherto without success.

"These are very pretty sentiments, Masteraaa, you bear a worthy name, no doubt, my ingenious commentator on commerce?" "They call me Seadrift, when they spare a harsher term;" returned the other, meekly declining to be seated.

[Footnote 214: After studying the commentators on this obscure passage, I have elected to follow the emendation of Ursinus, which, although Keil sneers at its license, has the advantage of making sense.

The author writes in the person of Votan himself, and proves his claim that he is a Chan, "because he is a Chivim." Chan has been translated serpent; on chivim the commentators have almost given up.

By , if I had been a justice of peace for Warwickshire, I would have clapt both commentator and sexton fast in the stocks, for a pair of meddling sacrilegious varlets.

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  commentator