Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to a recommendation
If it should be asked, what was my inducement to write this recommendatory address?
1791, John Towers, “Introduction”, in Divine Poems and Essays on various subjects (Maria De Fleury), page x3 more examples
The Reverend Dr. Wishart, principal of the college of Edinburgh, published some years ago a small edition of this incomparable treatise, with a recommendatory preface, equally pious, candid and judicious; an extract of which will therefore very properly conclude our preface.
1757, Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, page viThat while it was optional with the Lodge as to whether or not it would grant a recommendatory certificate with a dimit, it is equally optional with the member applying for dimit whether or not he will accept a dimit without a recommendatory certificate.
1898, Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado, page 118Since it is now the CAO who determines when compliance has been reached, its findings can no longer be considered merely recommendatory.
2014, Annegret Flohr, Self-Regulation and Legalization
Translations
French recommandatoire
- recommandatoireof or pertaining to a recommendation
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