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COMMENDATORY

Definition: COMMENDATORY

COMMENDATORY

Adjective

1. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop.

2. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.

Noun

1. A commendation; eulogy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COMMENDATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)


Synonyms within Context: COMMENDATORY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Approbation

Commendatory, complimentary, benedictory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise, uncritical.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COMMENDATORY

English words defined with "COMMENDATORY": Commendatory prayerEulogical, EulogisticalParathesisRecommendatory. (references)

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Expression: COMMENDATORY

Expression using "COMMENDATORY": Commendatory prayer. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COMMENDATORY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

commendatory

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COMMENDATORY

Language Translations for "COMMENDATORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مدحي (complimentary, laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praising). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تقدیرامیز. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συστατικόσ (constituent, recommendatory, testimonial), επαινετικόσ (appreciative, laudatory). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dicsérő (eulogistical, laudative, laudatory, panegyric), ajánló (dedicatory, proposer, recommendatory, sponsor). (various references)

   

Manx

  

moyllee (complimentary, congratulatory). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ommendatorycay

   

Romanian

  

recomandabil (adequate, advisable, commendable, recommendable, recommendatory), elogios (encomiastic, eulogistic), apologetic (apologetic, apologetical, complimentary, encomiastical, encomiastically, eulogistic, eulogistically, roll my log and i'll roll yours, scratch my back and i'll scratch yours). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рекомендующий (permissive). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rekommendations-, berömmande (laudative, laudatory). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tavsiye eden, salık veren, metheden (flattering, in praise of smb., in smb.'s praise), öven (eulogistic, in praise of smb., in smb.'s praise). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ca ngợi (complimentary, laudative, laudatory), tiến cử, tán dương; tuyên dương giới thiệu, khen ngợi. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cymeradwyol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: COMMENDATORY

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

commendaticiis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: COMMENDATORY

Derivations

Words ending with "COMMENDATORY": recommendatory. (additional references)


Misspellings

"COMMENDATORY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commendatore, Kommandatur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: COMMENDATORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-m-m-n-o-o-r-t-y"

-2 letters: commandery, commentary.

-3 letters: cartooned, commander, coronated, creodonta, dynamotor, manometry, momentary, motorcade.

-4 letters: acrodont, aeronomy, anteroom, aroynted, cartoned, cartoony, coenamor, cometary, commando, commoner, coronate, crayoned, creodont, deaconry, democrat, dormancy, enactory, marooned, moderato, monetary, monocrat, monocyte, mordancy, motorman, motormen, mycetoma, octonary, odometry, ratooned, romanced, roommate.

-5 letters: acronym, anymore, ardency, cardoon, caromed, cartoon, command, commend, comment, commode.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-m-m-n-o-o-r-t-y"
 

+2 letters: recommendatory.

 

+5 letters: aerothermodynamic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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