RECOMMEND', v.t. [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.[Commend here is much to be preferred.]
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