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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Recom(m)endatio(u)n(e, n. Also: reconmend-, recommendatiounn, recommandassyon. [Late ME (1450) and e.m.E. recom(m)endacion, -tion, OF recommend-, F. recommandation, med. L. recommendation- (1270 in Du Cange), Recom(m)end v.]
1. The action of commending oneself or one's service to the regard or memory of another.Also pl. in the same sense.(a) 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 235.
I leif to thé my trew vnfenȝeit hart … With moist reuerent reconmendatioun c1520-c1535 Nisbet III 345/1.
The last chapture is a chapture of recommendatiounn 1543 Corr. M. Lorraine 18.
Efter mast humill, mast lawle recommendatioun … of my sympill servis 1544 Ib. 94.
Efter mest humblele recommendations off my service c1552 Lynd. Mon. 29.
Efter reuerend recommendatioun, Under thare feit, thow lawlye thé submyt 1562 Breadalbane Lett. 12 Feb.
Honorable schir and eme eftir my maist hartlie recommendationis this present salbe to aduertis ȝow that [etc.] 1578–9 Waus Corr. 200.
My lord and bruther, eftir all hartlie recommendatioun [etc.](b) 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 78.
I commend me … to yow and as for samekyll hes I maid yowr recommandassyons to my lord Darle … ye ar better prowydit na ye trow
b. ? A document committing (a matter) to the care of those in authority. —1673 Rothesay B. Rec. 243.
The persewar producit ane recomendatioune grantit to the magistrats of Rothesay to administer justice thairin [sc. a matter]
2. The action of recommending a person or thing as deserving or desirable; commendation; approval; also a particular instance of this.Also const. (in favour) of the person recommended.(1) 1549 Compl. 184/18.
The neutralite of Cicero deseruis recommendatione(2) 1637 Baillie I 6.
A number lope to their friends for recommendations to Court 1647 Acts VI i 761/1.
Recommendation to the Lyon for discharging messengeris suspect of poprie 1686 Fountainhall Decis. I 417.
John Adair gets … a recommendation to the gentry for his … maps(3) 1578 Reg. Privy C. III 25.
[He must proceed by himself,] uncareing langer for thair recommendatioun of ony [person] 1661 Acts VII 336/1 marg.
Recommendation in favours of Sir John Fletcher, lord advocat
b. Ane lettre, letters (of) recommendatioun.1651 Hist. Carnegies 445.
Letters of recommendation for ȝour inlardgment 1691 Foulis Acc. Bk. 141.
His letter recomendatioun to Sandie
