The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commend \Com*mend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commended; p. pr. & vb. n. Commending.] [L. commendare; com- + mandare to intrust to one's charge, enjoin, command. Cf. Command, Mandate.]
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To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.
His eye commends the leading to his hand.
--Shak.Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
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To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.
Among the objects of knowledge, two especially commend themselves to our contemplation.
--Sir M. Hale.I commend unto you Phebe our sister.
--Rom. xvi. 1. -
To mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act.
Historians commend Alexander for weeping when he read the actions of Achilles.
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To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will. [Archaic]
Commend me to my brother.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: commend)
Usage examples of "commended".
And then he asked his arms, and mounted upon his horse, and hung the white shield about his neck, and commended them unto God.
I suppose well, said Sir Galahad, and took his armour and his horse, and commended them unto God.
Then he commended himself unto God, and prayed Our Lord to keep him from all such temptations.
Ye shall not find this day nor night, but to-morn ye shall find harbour good, and ease of that ye be in doubt of And then he commended her unto God.
And after dinner he took his horse and commended her to God, and so rode into a deep valley, and there he saw a river and an high mountain.
Anon Galahad armed him, and took his horse, and commended him to God, and bade the gentlewoman go, and he would follow thereas she liked.
And upon the morrow when they had heard mass they departed and commended the good man to God: and so they came to a castle and passed by.
So Sir Bors took his horse, and commended him to God, and rode after, to rescue the wounded knight.
And there with he commended the king to God, and so rode through many realms.
Then gat he his spear in his hand, and his sword by his side, and commended the lady unto God, and said: Lady, for this good deed I shall do you service if ever it be in my power.
I do not dwell on the fact that the inhabitants of Minturnae took pity on Marius, and commended him to the goddess Marica in her grove, that she might give him success in all things, and that from the abyss of despair in which he then lay he forthwith returned unhurt to Rome, and entered the city the ruthless leader of a ruthless army.
A very great matter is at stake when the true and truly holy divinity is commended to men as that which they ought to seek after and to worship.
For divine providence gave to them bodies of a better quality than ours, that that in which we excel them might in this way be commended to us as deserving to be far more cared for than the body, and that we should learn to despise the bodily excellence of the demons compared with goodness of life, in respect of which we are better than they, knowing that we too shall have immortality of body,-not an immortality tortured by eternal punishment, but that which is consequent on purity of soul.
And when he commended the excellence of the gods, he affirmed that they excelled in that very blessedness to which he thinks men must attain by wisdom.
The grace of God could not have been more graciously commended to us than thus, that the only Son of God, remaining unchangeable in Himself, should assume humanity, and should give us the hope of His love, by means of the mediation of a human nature, through which we, from the condition of men, might come to Him who was so far off,-the immortal from the mortal.