RECOMMEND', verb transitive [re and commend.] 1. To praise to another; to offer or commend to another's notice, confidence or kindness by favorable representations. Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus. [In this sense, commend, though less common, is the preferable word.] 2. To make acceptable. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and ev'n a stranger recommends. 3. To commit with prayers. Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God. Acts 15:40. [Commend here is much to be preferred.]
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