What does "recommendatory" mean?

Of or pertaining to a recommendation

What is a synonym for "recommendatory"?

Common synonyms include: advisory, didactic, directive, favorable, hortatory, instructive.

Recommendatory

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Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to a recommendation not-comparable
"The Reverend Dr. Wishart, principal of the college of Edinburgh, published some years ago a small edition of this incomparable treatise, with a recommendatory preface, equally pious, candid and judicious; an extract of which will therefore very properly conclude our preface."

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advisory didactic directive favorable hortatory instructive

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"The Reverend Dr. Wishart, principal of the college of Edinburgh, published some years ago a small edition of this incomparable treatise, with a recommendatory preface, equally pious, candid and judicious; an extract of which will therefore very properly conclude our preface."

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