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  • 11Commendatory Prayer —    A beautiful and impressive prayer added to the Prayer Book in 1661, and which is to be said over a dying person. This prayer ought to be memorized by every Churchman so as to use it in any emergency for, as Bishop Coxe suggests in Thoughts on… …

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  • 12commendatory — /keuh men deuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. 1. serving to commend; approving; praising. 2. holding a benefice in commendam. 3. held in commendam. [1545 55; < LL commendatorius, equiv. to commenda(re) to COMMEND + torius TORY1] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 13commendatory — adjective Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary …

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  • 14commendatory — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. laudatory, praising, approving, recommending; see complimentary . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Serving to compliment: acclamatory, approbatory, complimentary, congratulatory, laudatory. See PRAISE …

    English dictionary for students

  • 15commendatory — com mend·a·to·ry || dÉ™tÉ™rɪ adj. serving to commend (praise, applaud; recommend, promote) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 16commendatory — a. Commending, laudatory, eulogistic, complimentary, encomiastic, panegyrical …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 17commendatory — adj recommendatory, recommending, promoting, endorsing, advocating, sanctioning; approving, approbative, approbatory, preconizing, commending; praising, laudatory, acclamatory, cele brative, congratulant; complimentary, flattering, favorable …

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  • 18commendatory — com·men·da·to·ry …

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  • 19commendatory — /kəˈmɛndətəri/ (say kuh menduhtuhree), / dətri/ (say duhtree) adjective 1. serving to commend; approving; praising. 2. holding a benefice in commendam. 3. held in commendam …

  • 20commendatory — He who holds a church living or preferment in commendam …

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