a. rare. [f. L. stem of commentat-or, etc. + -IVE.]
† 1. = COMMENTITIOUS. Obs.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 79. These two Commentative Pamphlets were first edition’d in French. Ibid., III. Crit. Hist., 37. The same Impudent Arian dares in those forg’d Commentative Tracts, adventure to make Origen say, etc.
2. Making or containing comments.
1846. Worcester cites Ecl. Rev.
