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Commending

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.]

  1. 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.
    --Luke xxiii. 46.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.
    --Dryden.

  4. To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will. [Archaic]

    Commend me to my brother.
    --Shak.

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commending

vb. (present participle of commend English)

Usage examples of "commending".

The old man could not obtain any more positive reply and left us with but feeble hopes, but commending himself to my good offices.

I next wrote to the Toscani, to Baletti, and to the good-natured mistress of the Austrian ambassador, commending Le Duc to their care, and thanking them for their friendly help.

Varro said it,-not when he was mocking, but when he was commending the gods did he say it.

For by so doing, either he would have persuaded the judges to adopt his own opinion, or, if they had shown their partiality for unjust laws, and condemned him to death notwithstanding his praising and commending such things, the demons would have bestowed on his soul such rewards as he deserved, who, in order to proclaim and set forth their divine works, had not feared the loss of his human life.

But since God, for the sake of commending to us the oracles of His truth, has, by means of these immortal messengers, who proclaim His majesty and not their own pride, wrought miracles of surpassing grandeur, certainty, and distinctness, in order that the weak among the godly might not be drawn away to false religion by those who require us to sacrifice to them and endeavor to convince us by stupendous appeals to our senses, who is so utterly unreasonable as not to choose and follow the truth, when he finds that it is heralded by even more striking evidences than falsehood?

It is not such things that the saints who walk in the universal way care to predict as important, although, for the purpose of commending the faith, they knew and often predicted even such things as could not be detected by human observation, nor be readily verified by experience.

And though they decayed not with years, nor drew nearer to death,-a condition secured to them in God’s marvellous grace by the tree of life, which grew along with the forbidden tree in the midst of Paradise,-yet they took other nourishment, though not of that one tree, which was interdicted not because it was itself bad, but for the sake of commending a pure and simple obedience, which is the great virtue of the rational creature set under the Creator as his Lord.

She had often heard from Croce's lips the story of the Marseilles girl whom he had left penniless in an inn at Milan, commending her to my care.

Nor is it to be supposed from this that they are to omit commending themselves to God, for there will be time and opportunity for doing so while they are engaged in their task.

Under cover of blowing on his fingers to warm them, he set the stone of his Adept ring briefly to his lips, commending himself to the guidance and protection of the Light, then set pencil to paper and let the dark images channel through his drawing hand.

When Adam had reached the working level appropriate to what he had in mind, he transferred his now-undivided attention to the photo, commending the man he hoped was still alive to the awareness of the celestial Guardians of the Inner Planes.

They are frightened," Minister Kwan responded, gracing Batu with a commending smile.

Really I could only describe his erratic nature by commending you to the study of a dragon-fly.

Or Felter:--your convinced and fervent Catholic has quotations of images and Latin hymns to his Madonna or one of his Catherines, by the dozen, to suit an enthusiastic fit of the worship of some fair woman, and elude the prosy in commending her.

She took a breath, fixed a befitting smile of gratitude upon her face, and mustered a few appropriate words, commending Arhys and his men on their courage and swift response to the raiders' incursion, raising her voice to carry her compliments to the far tables.