a. rare. [ad. L. commendātīv-us: see COMMEND and -IVE.] = COMMENDATORY. Hence Commendatively adv.

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1823.  E. T. Vaughan, Luther’s Bondage of the Will, Pref. xlvii.–xlviii. It is the work … of one who knew what is in the Bible, but did not understand the Bible: imposing, but not solid; objurgatory and commendative; but neither disproving what he blamed, nor establishing, or even defining, what he approved.

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1865.  Le Fanu, Uncle Silas, xxxiii. 216. She observed commendatively.

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1919.  W. H. Mills, Concerning Peace & War, 8.

        Therefore we think of them as dear
      To God, and very near to Him;
      
Therefore our commendative hymn
Is as a wreath upon their bier.

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