About The Word Recommend
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Recommend
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What's The Definition Of Recommend?
[v] make attractive or acceptable; "Honesty recommends any person"
[v] push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [v] express a good opinion of Synonyms | Synonyms for Recommend: advocate | commend | urge Related Terms | Find terms related to Recommend: See Also | advise | alter | change | praise | propose | suggest Recommend In Webster's Dictionary \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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