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
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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.