Recommend /(r?k`?m*m?nd")/

Rec·om·mend

Recommend

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Recommended; p. pr. & vb. n. Recommending

  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.
  2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
    A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends.
  3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
    Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.