to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
2.
to represent or urge as advisable or expedient: to recommend caution.
3.
to advise, as an alternative; suggest (a choice, course of action, etc.) as appropriate, beneficial, or the like: He recommended the blue-plate special. The doctor recommended special exercises for her.
4.
to make desirable or attractive: a plan that has very little to recommend it.
–verb (used without object)
5.
to make a recommendation.
–noun
6.
Informal. a recommendation.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME recommenden < ML recommendāre, equiv. to L re-re-+ commendāre to commend]
1377, "praise, present as worthy," from M.L. recommendare (1216), from L. re-, intensive prefix, + commendare "commit to one's care, commend" (see commend). First record of recommendation is from 1408.
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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