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commendatory, a. and n.|kəˈmɛndətərɪ|
Also 7–8 command-.
[ad. late L. commendātōri-us, f. commendātor: see commendator and -ory.]
A. adj.
1. Having the attribute of commending or recommending.
1555[see b]. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 405 Let the Fathers be..eloquent in theyr commendatory Declamations. 1641Milton Ch. Discip. i. (1851) 10 The commendatory subscriptions of Confessors and Martyrs. 1833H. Coleridge North. Worthies (1852) I. 43 A copy of commendatory verses. 1837Thackeray Ravenswing vii, He would venture upon a commendatory grin.
b. commendatory letter or commendatory epistle: a letter commending a person to favourable notice or reception; esp. a testimonial or letter of introduction given for this purpose by a bishop to a member of his diocese when about to travel.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 308 He had receaued letters commendatori of pope Leo the tenth. 1568Grafton Chron. Hen. VIII. an. 17 (R.) That no Englishman should enter into Scotland, without letters commendatory of theyr awne souereigne lorde. 1672Cave Prim. Chr. iii. iii. (1673) 309 Commendatory Epistles granted to all whether Clergie or Laity that were to travel, as Tickets of Hospitality. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) iv, Bellerophontis literas portare; when a man carrieth commendatory letters to his own hurt.
c. commendatory prayer: in the Anglican Liturgy, a prayer in which a person at the point of death is commended to the mercy of God.
1661Prayer-bk., Rubric in Burial Office, A commendatory prayer for a sick person at the point of departure. 1865Reader 8 July 30 Their heroes appear..to live that they may die with the Commendatory Prayer on their lips.
2. Holding a benefice in commendam.
1682G. Vernon Life Heylyn 67 John, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, then Commendatory-Dean thereof. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 295 The estates possessed by bishops and canons, and commendatory abbots. 1872O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms s.v. Abbot, Some abbots secular were commendatory, enjoying a portion of the revenues.
b. Held in commendam.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 206 The bishopricks, and the great commendatory abbies, were, with few exceptions, held by that order [the nobility].
3. Pertaining to feudal commendation.
1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) I. iii. 127 The feudal or commendatory relation is a very delicate relation.
B. n.
†1. A commendatory fact or word. Obs.
1641Cheke's Life in Hurt Sedit. B iv b, The..King upon the sole commendatories of his former deservings reserved that honour for him. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 63 A sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety. a1714Sharp Serm. I. i. (R.), Whatever did but bear..the superscription of the holy Jesus would need no other commendatories to our affection. a1716South Serm. VIII. vii. (R.), Just as if Cicero had spoke commendatories of Anthony.
†2. A knight-commander. Obs.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. III. vii. (Arb.) 165 Chiefe Commendatory of the order of the knyghtes of Alcantara. 1759State Papers in Ann. Reg. 220/2 Degraded of the order of St. Jago, of which he was a commendatory. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 560 The palace of the commendatory of the Teutonick order..once stood here.
†3. One who holds a benefice in commendam.
a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 337 Condemned to die for keeping intelligence with the Commendatory of Driburgh. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 191 In Process of Time Commendatories, by divers Pretences of Honesty and Necessity made use of the Fruits themselves.
†4. = commandery. Obs.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 127 The Knights of this order..became possessed of..beautiful monasteries and manye fayre Commendatories. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 533 The Stadtholder of the bailiwick of Thuringia and the Commandatory of Grifstadt.
†5. = commendam 2. Obs.
1755R. Keith Catal. Scot. Bps. (1824) 36 His uncle, now become primate of St. Andrew's, resigned in his favour the commendatory of Arbroath. 1849J. Grant Mem. Kirkaldy Gr. xxi. 245 His Commendatory of Coldingham [was given] to Home of Manderston. |