Obs.–0 [OF. (in Cotgr. 1611), corresp. to med.L. commendatias = commendationes ‘officium vel orationes pro defunctis.’]
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Commendaces, Funeral Orations, Prayers made for the dead: Verses made in praise of the dead. [from Cotgrave.] Hence in Phillips, etc.
