commend (komend)

[ Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Luke xxiii. 46. No doubt the good proportion of any thing doth greatly Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 114. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. Luke xvi. 8. He commended my spirit, though he disapproved my suspicions. Goldsmith, Vicar, ix. 4. To bring to the mind or memory of; give or send the greeting of: with a personal pro- noun, often reflexive. Commend me to my brother. Shak., M. for M., i. 5. Troilus commends himself most affectionately to Shak., T. and C., iii. 1. Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. Commend me to home-joy, the family board, Altar and hearth. Browning , Ring and Book, II. 65. Dispensations, exemptions, commendams, annates, Milman , Latin Christianity, xiii. 10. A living had been granted by the King to the Bishop of Lincoln in commendam , and the claimants of the right of presentation had brought an action against the Bishop. E. A. Abbott , Bacon, p. 240. [He] esteems his a ociating with him a sufficient evi- dence and commendatory of his own piety. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 39. com men datary (ko-men'da-ta-ri), n . commend a tar i us, commend a : see commendam .] See commendam. Also com men datary . [ Froward, complaining, a commender glad Of the times past, when he was a young lad. Same as commendatory , 2. commendation (kom-en-dā'shon), n . [ commend ação = It. com-. mend azione , commendatio (n-), commend a- re, pp. commend at us , commend: see commend, v., and -ation .] 1. The act of commending; commend ment (ko-mendment), n. praise; approbation; favorable representation mend +-ment.] Commendation. B. Jonson. in words; declaration of esteem. Need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to 2 Cor. iii. 1. The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unle extorted. Dryden, Pref. to Abs. and Achit. 2. That which commends or fecommends; a ground of esteem, approbation, or praise. Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man. Dryden, Ded. to Juvenal's Satires. 3. Kind remembrance; respects; greeting; me age of love: commonly in the plural. [Ar- chaic.] Mistre Page hath her hearty commendations to you too. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 4. In feudal law , the ce ion by a freeman to a lord of dominion over himself and his estate, the freeman thus becoming the va al and se- curing the protection of the lord. It was typified by placing the hands between those of the lord, and taking the oath of fealty. It is sometimes described as a surren- der of estate, and sometimes as not involving this. By the practice of Commendation the inferior put himself under the personal care of a lord, but without al- tering or divesting himself of his right to his estate. Tell her, I send to her my kind commends. Shak ., Rich. II., iii. 1. Thanks, master jailer, and a kind commend. Let Jack Toldervy have my kind Commends , with this Caveat, That the Pot which goes often to the Water, comes home cracked at last. Howell , Letters, I. i. 6. commendable (ko-men'da-bl), a. [= Sp. co- mendable = It. commend a bile , com me commer L. commendabi- IMG:content-0874.png:[blocks in formation] Commendation of the body, in the Book of Common Prayer, the form of committal of the body at burial to the ground or to the sea. =Syn. 1. Recommendation, en- comium. commendator (kom'en-da-tor), n. [ML., one holding in commendam, L. a commender, com- mendare, commend: see commend , v., and com- mend am.] One who holds a benefice in com- mend am. See commendam . Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 66. Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable . Shak . , Much Ado, iii. 1. commendablene (ko-men'da-bl-nes), n. The state of being commendable. commendably (ko-men'da-bli), adv . In a com- mendable or praiseworthy manner. commendatory (ko-men'da-to-ri), a . and n. [ Sp. com end a to rio, letter.-2. Holding a benefice in commendam: as, a commendatory bishop.-3. Held in com- mend am. See commendam . The bishoprics and the great commendatory abbeys were, with few exceptions, held by that order. Commendatory letters, letters written by one bishop to another in behalf of any of the clergy or others of his diocese who are traveling, that they may be well received among the faithful; letters of credence. According to the rules and practice of the ancient church, no Christian could communicate with the church, or receive any aid or countenance from it, in a country not his own, unle he carried with him letters of credence from his bishop. These letters were of several kinds, according to the dif- ferent occasions or the quality of the person who carried them, viz., commendatory (specifically so called), commu- nicatory, and dimi ory . The first were granted only to persons of quality, or to persons whose reputation had been called in question, or to the clergy who had occasion to travel in foreign countries. The second were granted to all who were in peace and communion with the church, whence they were also called pacifical , ecclesiastical , and sometimes canonical . The third were given only to the clergy removing from one church to settle in another, and testified that the bearer had the bishop's leave to depart. Commendatory prayer, in the Book of Common Prayer, a prayer in the order for the visitation of the sick, to be used for a person at the point of death, com- mending his soul to God. IMG:content-0875.png:[blocks in formation] mon measure: see commensurate , and cf. com- measurable , mensurable.] 1. Having a com- mon measure; reducible to a common measure. Thus, a yard and a foot are commensurable, as both may be measured by inches. Commensurable numbers are those which may be measured or divided by other numbers with- out a remainder, as 12 and 18, which may be measured by 6 and 3. See incommensurable . 2. Suitable in measure; adapted. Their poems could not be made commensurable to Hobbs , On Davenant's Preface. IMG:content-0876.png:[blocks in formation] common measure. IMG:content-0877.png:[blocks in formation] as, a commentary on the Bible. A textual com- mentary explains the author's meaning, sen- tence by sentence. Hence-2. Anything that serves to explain or illustrate; an exemplifica- ing. 3. A historical narrative; an explanatory rec- ord of particular transactions: as, the Commen- taries of Cæsar. "Memorials," or preparatory history, are of two sorts; whereof the one may be termed Commentaries , and the other Registers. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 126. =Syn. See remark, n. 3. Corresponding in amount, degree, or mag- nitude; adequate; proportionate to the pur- pose, occasion, capacity, etc.: as, we find no- thing in this life commensurate with our desires. commentaryt (kom'en-ta-ri), v. [ commentary , IMG:content-0878.png:[blocks in formation] Enter his chamber, view his breathle corpse, And comment then upon his sudden death. IMG:content-0879.png:[blocks in formation] Poor Alma sits between two Stools: The more she reads, the more perplext: The Comment ruining the Text. 2. Talk or discourse upon a particular subject; go ip. She hated all the knights, and heard in thought Their lavish comment when her name was named. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. Now a little to commentary vpon all these proceedings, Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, II. 26. II. trans. To comment upon. IMG:content-0880.png:[blocks in formation] commentate (kom'en-tāt), v. i.; pret. and pp. commentated , ppr. commentating . [ tatus , pp. of commentari , comment: see com- ment i, v.] To make comments; write a com- mentary or annotations. [Rare.] commentation (kom-en-ta's hon), n. [= It. com ent azione, commentatio (n-), tar i , pp. comment at us , atatus , comment: see comment1 , v.] The act or practice of one who comments; annotation. The spirit of commentation turns to questions of taste, of metaphysics and morals, with far more avidity than to physics. commentative (ko-men'ta-tiv), a. [ com- ment at eur, etc., commentator , an inven- tor, interpreter, comment1 , v., and cf. com- menter.] One who makes comments or critical and expository notes upon a book or other writing; an expositor; an annotator. I have made such expositions of my authors as no com- ment at or will forgive me. Dryden. How commentators each dark pa age shun, And hold their farthing candles to the sun. Young , Satires, vii. 97. commentatorial (ko-men-ta-tō'ri-al), a. [ -ial .] Relating to or character- istic of commentators. Whewell. commentator ship (kom'en-ta-tor-ship), n. [ -ship .] The office of a commen- tat or. commenter (kom'en-ter or ko-men'ter), n. [ And diuers Commenters upon Daniel hold the same opinion. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 73. As slily as any commenter goes by Hard words or sense. Donne , Satires, ii. comment it i oust (kom-en-tish'us), a. [L. comment it i us , more correctly com men tic i us , de- vised, fabricated, feigned, commentiri , devise a falsehood: see comment2 .] Invented; feigned; imaginary; fictitious. So many comment it i ous Fables were inserted, that they rendered even what Truths he [Geoffrey of Mon mouth] wrote suspected. Baker , Chronicles, p. 1. Who willingly pa e by that which is Orthodox all in them, and studiously cull out that which is comment it i ous , and best for their turnes. Milton , Prelatical Episcopасу. commentitiousne t (kom-en-tish'us-nes), n. Counterfeit ne ; fictitiousne ; the state of be- ing fabricated. Bailey . Looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. Penn , Liberty of Conscience, v. Hid his face From all men, and commercing with himself, He lost the sense that handles daily life. Tennyson, Walking to the Mail. commerce ablet (ko-mer'sa-bl), a. [ Mon mouth , quoted by F. Hall. commerce le (kom'èrs-les), a. [ -le .] Destitute of commerce. [Rare.] The savage commerce le nations of America. commentor (kom'en-tor), n. See commenter . commentyt (kom'en-ti), n. An obsolete form extante, unence, such as the law of shipping, bills of of commonty1. commerce (kom'ers), n. [F. commerce = Sp. comercio = Pg. It. commer cio , merc i- ), goods, wares, merchandise, > mercari , trade: see merchant, mercenary.] 1. Inter- change of goods, merchandise, or property of any kind; trade; traffic: used more especially of trade on a large scale, carried on by trans- port at i on of merchandise between different countries, or between different parts of the same country, distinguished as foreign commerce and internal commerce: as, the commerce between Great Britain and the United States, or between New York and Boston; to be engaged in com- commercialism (ko-mer's hal-izm), n. mercial + -ism.] 1. The maxims and meth- ods of commerce or of commercial men; strict busine principles. The buy-cheap-and-sell-dear commercialism in which he had been brought up. Kingsley , Alton Locke, xxxix. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary commercialism 2. The predominance of commercial pursuits and ideas in an age, a nation, or a community. commercially (ko-mer's hal-i), adv. In a commercial manner; as regards commerce; from the busine man's point of view: as, an article commercially valuele ; copyright commercially considered.