recommend

Verb
Synonyms: urgeadvocatecommend

WordNet 3.0

Verb (3)

  1. push for something“The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day”Synonyms: urgeadvocate
  2. express a good opinion ofSynonyms: commend
  3. make attractive or acceptable“Honesty recommends any person”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Recommend \Rec`om*mend"\ (r?k`?m*m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recommended; p. pr. & vb. n. Recommending.] [Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.]

1.To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. [1913 Webster]

Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

2.To make acceptable; to attract favor to. [1913 Webster]

A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

3.To commit; to give in charge; to commend. [1913 Webster]

Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.— Acts xv. 40.[1913 Webster]
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