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commendator|ˈkɒməndeɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. commendātor, agent-n. f. commendāre; in ancient use ‘one who commends’, but in med.L. the title of the member of a knightly order, entrusted with the management of a commenda or commandery; = commander 3. Cf. It. comendatore ‘one that hath comendas put to his charge’ Florio (sense 1); Sp. comendador ‘one that hath commandements given him in charge’; in sense 1, Du Cange has commendatārius, F. commendataire.]
1. One who holds a benefice in commendam.
1561Q. Kennedy (title), Ane Oratioune set furth be Master Quintine Kennedy, commendatour of Crosragruell. 1679Burnet Hist. Ref. I. 428 The other [abbey] was of Bushlisham..in Berkshire, made by Barlow, Bishop of S. Davids, that was Commendator of it. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. i. v. (1743) 338 The abbacies of others were given to Laymen in Commendam, and they under the name of Commendators sat in Parliament and made up the first State of the clergy. 1875W. McIlwraith Guide to Wigtownshire 83 In 1560 the Pope appointed Thomas Hay..Commendator of the Monastery [of Glenluce].
†2. The president of a commandery; a knight-commander. Obs.
1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xxvi. 158 He knew of severall persons, that..could not obtain from the same Commendators the like faculties. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 190/1 The Commentator, or Great Master of the Order..is to be Knighted in the midst of the Knights.
3. = commendador, as a Spanish title: lieutenant, viceroy.
1583T. Stocker Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 102 b, Don Lewis of Requesens, the great commendator of Castil. 1665G. Havers tr. P. della Valle's Trav. 31 The Commendator of the Dutch [at Surat], came one day to give me a visit. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. 232 Don Ferdinand de Toledo, great Commendator of Leon..a nobleman of the first rank.
Hence commenˈdatorship [from sense 1].
1861Sat. Rev. XI. 301/2 Lord Robert Stewart..obtained..the Commendatorship of the Bishoprick. |