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recommendatory, a.|rɛkəˈmɛndətərɪ|
[f. recommend v.1 after commendatory a. Cf. OF. recommandatoire (1533 in Godef.).]
1. Having the attribute of recommending; expressing or conveying a recommendation.
1611Cotgr., Recommandatoire, commendatorie, recommendatorie. 1705Hearne Collect. 28 July (O.H.S.) I. 18 There are several Recommendatory Verses before it. 1712Addison Spect. No. 458 ⁋3 How many Men..give Recommendatory Characters of Men whom they are not acquainted with..? 1796Washington Let. Writ. 1892 XIII. 269 Let me pray you therefore to introduce a section in..the address..recommendatory of the measure. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 290 At which confession the chaplain..puts him down in the front rank for his next recommendatory report to the visiting magistrates.
b. recommendatory letter: (see commendatory a. 1 b, and cf. recommendation 4 b).
1618Demeanour of Sir W. Raleigh 59 His Letters recommendatory for his safe conduct and reception. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici, Athanasius 153 Having procur'd the Recommendatory Letters of George Bishop of Laodicea. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xx, My first care was to carry his recommendatory letter to his uncle. 1812D'Israeli Calam. Auth. (1867) 61 He..came to the metropolis with thirty recommendatory letters. 1885Manch. Exam. 5 Nov. 5/3 Mr. Spencely has the advantage of a letter recommendatory from Mr. Chamberlain.
c. recommendatory prayer: (see commendatory a. 1 c and recommend v.1 1).
1718Freethinker No. 6 ⁋12 He has left us the best Recommendatory Prayer in the Hour of Death.
2. Of a quality, feature, etc.: That recommends its possessor.
1709Steele Tatler No. 50 ⁋1 To none of these Recommendatory Advantages was his Title so undoubted as that of his Beauty. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. lxxxiv. 446 The only recommendatory point in Mr. H― is, that he dresses exceedingly smart. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clxxiv. note, The gentlemanly spirit, so recommendatory either in an author or his productions. 1868Morn. Star 2 June, Park horses, ladies' horses, and ponies were trotted out to display their respective recommendatory points.
3. Of a resolution, appointment, etc.: In the form of a recommendation, without binding force.
1690Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 329 This following Recommenditary order was ordered by y⊇ board. 1798in Dallas Amer. Law Rep. II. 169 If the resolve of Congress had been absolute and imperative, instead of being barely recommendatory. 1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxix. XI. 538 The resolution of the synod (noway binding upon the Athenian people, but merely recommendatory).
†b. Applied to a person recommended for appointment to a position. Obs.—1
1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 250 The lord mayor..drunk to sir Wm. Ashurst, as a recommendatory sherif for the ensuing year, if approv'd by the common hall. |