(Chiefly in 17th c.) [f. as prec. + -ER.] One who commends.
1570. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 22. A glad commender of it.
1625. Ussher, Answ. Jesuit, 28. Every old man … is a commender of the time past.
1707. Refl. Ridicule, 289. He … is his own Commender.
1713. Bentley, Rem. Disc. Free-Thinking, 241 (L.). Who, unqualified to understand one single page of Cicero, presumes to set up for his commender and patron.
