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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recommend \Rec`om*mend"\ (r?k`?m*m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Recommended}; p. pr & vb n. {Recommending}.] [Pref. re- +
commend: cf F. recommander.]
1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit
to another's care confidence, or acceptance, with
favoring representations; to put in a favorable light
before any one to bestow commendation on as he
recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.
M[ae]cenas recommended Virgil and Horace to
Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious
to posterity. --Dryden.
2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to
A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds,
and e'en a stranger recommends. --Pope.
3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by
the brethren unto the grace of God. --Acts xv 40.
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