a. Obs. [f. L. commentīci-us (-tīti-us) invented, feigned (f. comment- ppl. stem of comminisci to invent).] Of feigned or invented sort; fictitious, lying.
1614. Day, Festivals (1615), 294. A commentitious and fained Matrimony.
1615. Curry-c. for Cox-c., V. 209. Such idolatrous and Commentitious trumperies.
1699. Bentley, Phal., 181. As false and commentitious as our Sibylline Oracles.
1849. W. Fitzgerald, trans. Whitaker’s Disput., 664. They were full of commentitious fables.
Hence Commentitiously adv., Commentitiousness.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 252. They … sought to winne the waight of authority … by commentitiously prefixing his … name.
1727–31. Bailey, vol. II. Commentitiousness, counterfeitness, forgedness.
