recommend Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb push for something
    urge; advocate.
    • The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day
  2. verb express a good opinion of
    commend.
  3. verb make attractive or acceptable
    • Honesty recommends any person

WordNet

Rec`om*mend" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Recommended; present participle & verbal noun Recommending
Definitions
  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.
    Mæcenas 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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Webster 1913