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Webster 1913 Edition

Recommend

Recˊom-mend′

(r?kˊ?m-m?nd′)
,
Verb.
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
.
Maecenas
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Recommend

RECOMMEND'

,
Verb.
T.
[re and commend.]
1.
To praise to another; to offer or commend to another's notice, confidence or kindness by favorable representations.
Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus.
[In this sense, commend, though less common, is the preferable word.]
2.
To make acceptable.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and ev'n a stranger recommends.
3.
To commit with prayers.
Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God. Acts. 15.
[Commend here is much to be preferred.]

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