Word Meanings - COMMENDATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope. 2. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. Commendatory prayer , a prayer read over the dying. "The

Additional info about word: COMMENDATORY

1. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope. 2. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. Commendatory prayer , a prayer read over the dying. "The commendatory prayer was said for him, and, as it ended, he died." Bp. Burnet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMENDATORY)

• Complimentary
• Commendatory
• laudatory
• panegyrical
• eulogistic
• encomiastic
• lavish of praise
• Introductory
• Prefatory
• initiatory
• commendatory
• precursory
• preliminary
• preparatory

Related words: (words related to COMMENDATORY)

• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• EULOGISTIC; EULOGISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical; commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse. -- Eu"lo*gis"tic*al*ly, adv.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• PREFATORY
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden.
• INITIATORY
  1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall. 2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
• PRELIMINARY
  Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations. Syn. -- Introductory; preparatory;
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• INTRODUCTORY
  Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• COMMENDATORY
  1. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope. 2. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. Commendatory prayer , a prayer read over the dying. "The
• ENCOMIASTIC
  A panegyric. B. Jonson.
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
• PRAISE
  fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov.
• ENCOMIASTIC; ENCOMIASTICAL
  Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.
• LAVISHMENT
  The act of lavishing.
• PRECURSORY
  Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
• PREPARATORY
  Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
• PRAISE-MEETING
  A religious service mainly in song.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• SLAVISH
  Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. -- Slav"ish*ly, adv. -- Slav"ish*ness, n.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• RECOMMENDATORY
  Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• OVERLAVISH
  Lavish to excess.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.