recommendatory
adj1
Of or pertaining to a recommendation
- 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 vi:
- 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 x:
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- That 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 118:
- Since 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: