commend
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin commendare (“commend, entrust to, commit, recommend”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Doublet of command.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnd
Verb
commend (third-person singular simple present commends, present participle commending, simple past and past participle commended)
- (transitive) To congratulate or reward.
- The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.
- (transitive) To praise or acclaim.
- Dryden
- Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles.
- Dryden
- (transitive) To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 23:46:
- Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
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- (transitive) To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and goodwill.
- Shakespeare
- Commend me to my brother.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive) To recommend.
- Sir M. Hale
- Among the objects of knowledge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation.
- Bible, Romans xvi. 1
- I commend unto you Phoebe our sister.
- Sir M. Hale
- (transitive, dated) To adorn; to set off.
Related terms
Translations
to congratulate or reward
to praise
to entrust
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Noun
commend (plural commends)
- (obsolete) commendation; praise
- Shakespeare
- Speak in his just commend.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete, in the plural) compliments; greetings
- Howell
- Hearty commends and much endeared love to you.
- Howell
Further reading
- commend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- commend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- commend at OneLook Dictionary Search
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