adj
Meaning 1
Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irlande, London: John Hunne, The Historie of England, Kinewulfe, p. 198, In the yeare of our Lorde .786. [...] Pope Adrian sent two Lega[ts into] Englande [...] with letters commendatory vnto Offa king of Mercia [...]
- c. 1726, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift dated 8 March, in English Letters and Letter-Writers of the Eighteenth Century, London: George Bell, First Series, 1886, p. 470, You received, I hope, some commendatory verses from a Horse, and a Lilliputian, to Gulliver; and an heroic Epistle to Mrs. Gulliver.
Meaning relationships
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