a. [f. L. type *commentātōri-us (f. commentātor) + -AL; cf. dictatorial, etc.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a commentator or commentators.
1822. Blackw. Mag., IX. 455. His Latin, after all, is commentatorial.
1857. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc., I. 182. The Commentatorial Spirit, the Dogmatism … of the Middle Ages.
1882. Seeley, Nat. Relig., 174. When the commentatorial spirit is renounced, when free inspiration moves again.
