recommendatory
Americanadjective
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serving to recommend; recommending.
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serving as or being a recommendation.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of recommendatory
1605–15; < Medieval Latin recommendāt ( us ) ( see recommendation) + -ory 1
Example Sentences
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But the singer says he isn't through with the recommendatory sciences.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 8, 2010
He wrote a recommendatory copy of verses, which are prefixed to "The Conquest of Granada."
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
This is the strong recommendatory language of Morhof: Polyhist.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
On quitting the north, I had been charged with a letter for him by his father, which I knew, however, to be wholly recommendatory of myself, and so I had failed to deliver it.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
In a recommendatory sonnet prefixed, by G. W. senior, it appears that Spenser was now in Ireland.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton
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