Definition of Recommendatory

1. a. Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory.

Definition of Recommendatory

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a recommendation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recommendatory

1. commendatory [adj] - See also: commendatory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recommendatory

recomfortless
recomforts
recomforture
recommence
recommenced
recommencement
recommencements
recommences
recommencing
recommend
recommendable
recommendations
recommendative
recommendatives
recommendatory (current term)
recommended
recommender
recommenders
recommending
recommends
recommission
recommissioned
recommissioning
recommissions
recommit
recommitment
recommitments
recommits
recommittal

Literary usage of Recommendatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1887)
"ber of these are either books which he edited or to which he contributed recommendatory prefaces ; whilst others are single sermons and lectures which had a ..."

2. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"... happy termination of the war, nor great national concerns well conducted in peace, till there is something more than a recommendatory power in Congress. ..."

3. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1835)
"... happy termination of the war, nor great national concerns well conducted in peace, till there is something more than a recommendatory power in Congress. ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... recommendatory POEMS. 710 MR. POPE, OH HIS PASTORALI. IM (bow more dull, as more censorious days, When few dare give, and fewer merit praise, ..."

5. History of the Life and Times of James Madison by William Cabell Rives (1870)
"... Power of regulating Commerce — Convention ratifies Constitution by large Majority, with recommendatory Propositions of Subsequent Amendment — Virginia, ..."

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