recommendableadj.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 10 A Right recommendable thing [Fr. que tresrecommandable chose] in heuen and in erthe is a true tunge.

1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 6 The honorable cours of lyf he hath led..doth make him no lesse recomendable for true Christian pietie and vertue then for wisdome and valour.

1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox i. 12 All the recommendable qualities and exercise requisite for a Gentlewoman of such Extraction.

1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 302 The matchless Pattern of his most recommendable Character and Successes.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 435 There is a work..recommendable as well to those who have, as those who have not done any good work before.

1800 J. Parkinson Hospital Pupil ii. 51 Should he choose a larger work, the Principles of Chemistry, by Dr. Gren, is recommendable.

1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. 5 407 The Wise had found such Loyalty still practicable, and recommendable.

1888 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Phantom Future II. x. 146 This method is scarcely recommendable to young men of impressionable hearts.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xi. 311 It is difficult..to comprehend how men possessed of an inner life of their own could ever have come to think the subjection of its will to that of other finite creatures recommendable.

1959 Times 2 Jan. 9/7 I have come to the conclusion that a happy medium between the German and English educational systems would be recommendable.

2004 Adventure Trav. July–Aug. 32/2 The weather is not reliable enough for a quick trip to be recommendable.

1843 in J. Bentham Wks. X. xii. 319/1 Whether your quality of French citizen, instead of adding to your recommendability [etc.].

1967 South Atlantic Bull. 32 10/1 The MLA proficiency tests should serve to check the recommendability of teaching candidates.

2001 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 30 Dec. (Mag.) 18 Nearly three-quarters of the 43 rated restaurants earning at least two bells, a rating of ‘very good’ that serves as my benchmark for solid recommendability.

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. iii. 499 The fourth and last Rule or Measure of Opinions is, The Recommendableness of our Religion to those which are without.

1895 A. Reym Life-contrast I. iv. 49 There is no sufferance for extremes, but the recommendableness of the medium.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Recommendablement, recommendably,..praise-worthily.

1677 J. Davies tr. P. Scarron Lett. xxiii. 63 The violent dissolutions which are seen at the Greve, are not things that can be recommendably communicated.

1995 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Weekend section) 8 The service is still good, the decor still pleasant, and the food much, much better—recommendably better.