recommendaryadj.
/ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌrɛkəˈmɛndəri/ 1. = recommendatory adj. 1. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > recommendation > [adjective]
advocatory1569
recommendatory1592
recommendative1611
recommendary1708
1708 F. Bugg Goliah's Head Cut Off xxi. 327 Their recommendary Epistles of his Works in Folio.
1752 C. Calvert Let. 9 July in H. H. Mayer Mayer Family (1911) 2 I have given a recommendary letter for Mr. Bartholomew Myer.
1831 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 200/1 Fifty persons went out of the Diocese of Dublin to Rome in 1451 to celebrate the jubilee,..and..this prelate gave them recommendary certificates to the Pope.
1903 Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. 170 If I had a recommendary letter from yourself,..I would willingly try to obtain a deputation for him.
2. = recommendatory adj. 2.
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1938 Nomination Ebert K. Burlew (Hearings before U.S. Senate Comm. on Public Lands) i. 183 The power of advisory boards is recommendary only, and I have heard very few expressed desires to make it anything but recommendary.
1984 Human Rights Q. 6 482 Such resolutions are recommendary and failure to comply does not carry the threat of global publicity in the U.N. General Assembly.
2003 J. F. C. DiMento Global Environment & Internat. Law ii. 31 Such principles..are said to be aspirational or recommendary and not based on an international commitment necessary to create a natural legal conviction.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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