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
In 1675, Molinos published a book entitled "Il Guida Spirituale," to which were subjoined recommendatory letters from several great personages.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
For this reason, recommendatory or precatory words used in a bequest are frequently treated as an express direction.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Now, veteran asylums have many things recommendatory about them, but from Greenwich and the Invalides downwards there is one especial vice that clings to them—they are haunts of everlasting complaint.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
Under that name, he has prefixed two recommendatory poems to the first and second parts of the Faerie queene.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton
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