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recommendatory

[rek-uh-men-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˌrɛk əˈmɛn dəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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But the singer says he isn't through with the recommendatory sciences.

From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 8, 2010

Of the contents of this book, I shall notice, while I am treating upon this subject, not those rules which are of a recommendatory, but those, which are of a prohibitory nature.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson

"Does he come under the recommendatory 'firman' of any dear friend or acquaintance?"

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

I 'm not the son of an old steward or family coachman, that I want to go about with a black pocket-book stuffed with recommendatory letters.

From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever

Now, veteran asylums have many things recommendatory about them, but from Greenwich and the Invalides downwards there is one especial vice that clings to them—they are haunts of everlasting complaint.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever


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