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4 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
If it should be asked, what was my inducement to write this recommendatory address?
Source: wiktionary
That while it was optional with the Lodge as to whether or not it would grant a recommendatory certificate with a dimit, it is equally optional with the member applying for dimit whether or not he will accept a dimit without a recommendatory certificate.
Source: wiktionary
Since it is now the CAO who determines when compliance has been reached, its findings can no longer be considered merely recommendatory.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include advisory, advisory body, advisory report, didactic, directive.
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