Also 6 -do. The Latin and Ital. form of the word COMMENDAM, occas. used.
1598. Florio, Comendatore … one that hath Comendoes [1611 Comendas] put to his charge.
1616. Brent, trans. Sarpi’s Counc. Trent (1676), 27. The abuses of Commendaes and Annates. Ibid., 468. Willing to get Benefices in Commenda.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. 393. Commenda, or ecclesia commendata, is a living commended by the crown to the care of a clerk, to hold till a proper pastor is provided for it.
1885. T. Arnold, Cath. Dict., Commenda.
