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coˈmmendatary, a. and n.
[ad. med.L. commendātāri-us (in same senses), f. ppl. stem commendāt-: see commendate and -ary.]
A. adj. = commendatory (sense 2).
1611Cotgr., Commendataire, commendatarie; giuen in, enioyed, or inioying by, Commendum. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Commendam. The commendatary abbots.
B. n.
a. Eccl. A commendator.
b. gen. One put in charge, a commissioner.
1539in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 155 Robert Kinge, abbat and commendatary of Osney. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. v. 77 Commendataries were as it were Tutors and Curators of Monasteries. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. II. xvi. 31 In those times of oppression and cruelty..the Commendataries (encomenderos) let out the Indians to travellers like beasts of burden. |