anti-commentary
English
editEtymology
editFrom anti- + commentary.
Noun
editanti-commentary (plural anti-commentaries)
- (history of philosophy) A hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
- 2018, Linda Deer Richardson, Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance: The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497–1558), →ISBN, page 144:
- More comprehensive than any of these […] is the De Rerum Natura juxta propria principia of Bernardino Telesio: in one sense a commentary on the natural philosophical works of Aristotle, in another sense a rejection of the Philosopher – an anti-commentary, as it were.
- 2019, Stephen Mark Holmes, “Liturgical Theology before 1600”, in David Ferguson, Mark W. Elliott, editors, The History of Scottish Theology, volume 1, Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy, →ISBN, page 63:
- The first argues that sacred signs ordained by God have always been corrupted by men, the second, called ‘our litil treatise of ye Messe’, is an anti-commentary on the Mass and vestments, and the third a commentary on the Reformed liturgy.