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adulate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from adulation, 1777.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ.d???.le?t/
Verb
adulate (third-person singular simple present adulates, present participle adulating, simple past and past participle adulated)
- To flatter effusively.
Derived terms
- adulation
- adulator
- adulatory
Translations
References
Italian
Verb
adulate
- second-person plural present indicative of adulare
- second-person plural imperative of adulare
- feminine plural of adulato
Anagrams
- laudate
Latin
Participle
ad?l?te
- vocative masculine singular of ad?l?tus
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commend
English
Etymology
From Middle English commenden, from Old French comender, from Latin commend? (“commend, entrust to, commit, recommend”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Doublet of command.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??m?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Verb
commend (third-person singular simple present commends, present participle commending, simple past and past participle commended)
- (transitive) To congratulate or reward.
- (transitive) To praise or acclaim.
- Segrais on this Subject of a Heroe's ?hedding Tears, ob?erves that Hi?torians commend Alexander for weeping, when he read the mighty Actions of Achilles.
- (transitive) To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.
- Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
- (transitive) To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and goodwill.
- (transitive) To recommend.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- Among the objects of knowledge, two especially […] commend themselves to our contemplation.
- I commend vnto you Phebe our sister, which is a seruant of the Church which is at Cenchrea:
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (transitive, dated) To adorn; to set off.
Related terms
- commendable
- commendation
- commendatory
- recommend
Translations
See also
- suggest
- consider
- approval
Noun
commend (plural commends)
- (obsolete) Commendation; praise.
- (obsolete, in the plural) Compliments; greetings.
- 3 August 1621, James Howell, "to Dr. Thomas Prichard at Worcester House" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ
- Hearty commends and much endeared love unto you.
- 3 August 1621, James Howell, "to Dr. Thomas Prichard at Worcester House" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ
Further reading
- commend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- commend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- commend at OneLook Dictionary Search
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