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recommend

verb transitive
To praise to another; to offer or commend to another’s notice, confidence or kindness by favorable representations. Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus.

recommend

To make acceptable. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and ev’n a stranger recommends.

recommend

To commit with prayers. Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God. Acts 15:40.