Rec`om-mend', v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. RECOMMENDED; p. pr. & vb. n. RECOMMENDING.] [Prefix re and commend; Fr. recommender, Pr. & Pg. recommander, Sp. recomendar, It. raccomandare.]
Sense 1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or kindness, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; to praise in order to the acceptance of others.
Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus. Dryden.
Sense 2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. Pope.
Sense 3. To commit; to give in charge.
Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. Acts xiv. 40.
Sense 4. To advise, as an action, practice, measure, remedy, &c.