Commendatory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Commendatory is an adjective meaning Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary.
Meaning
Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary.
More Meanings
- Holding a benefice in commendam.
- (obsolete) That which commends; a commendation; eulogy.
Example Sentences
a commendatory bishop
The bishoprics, and the great commendatory abbies, were, with few exceptions, held by that order.
Pompey had made a Law also, to forbid the custom of making commendatory Orations, on behalf of those that were accused:
One and all, the professors, the preachers, and the editors, hold their jobs by serving the Plutocracy, and their service consists of propagating only such ideas as are either harmless to or commendatory of the Plutocracy.
Word Forms
- commendatories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flattering, complimentative, complimentary, encomiastic, eulogistic, favourable.
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