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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 9 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• commend:
    1. I. To commit, give in charge:
      1. 1. commendo, 1 (with acc. and dat.): I c. and commit myself to your protection, ego me tuae c. et committo fidei, Ter.: to you I entirely c. and entrust myself, tibi me totum c. atque trado, Cic. (N.B. For the simple verb mando, v. to commit.)
      2. 2. crēdo, concrēdo: v. to entrust.
      3. 3. committo: v. to commit.
    2. II. To speak well of: v. to praise.
    3. III. To c. to a person's notice or favour, commendo: v. to recommend.
    4. IV. To make acceptable:
      1. 1. prŏbo, 1: Epicurus has c.'d himself to many persons, E. se multis probavit, Cic.
      2. 2. apprŏbo, 1: during his first years of service he c.'d himself to S. Paullinus, prima castrorum rudimenta S. Paullino approbavit, Tac.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• COMMEND
commendare. OBS., commendare answers exactly to the English word in all its meanings. (1) To recommend to protection, etc., or favorable notice, commendare aliquem or aliquid alicui: (2) To make an impression in favour of anything, (vox) quae una maxime eloquentiam vel commendat vel sustinet (Cic.). (3) Deliver over to notice; e.g., commendare aliquid litteris, commendare nomen tuum immortalitati. To commend anybody to another strongly, alicui aliquem de meliore nota commendare (Curt., ap: Cic. Epp: 7, 29: the figure taken from the nota, by which the quality of wine was marked): to commend anybody very earnestly, etiam atque etiam or magnopere or valde commendare: aliquem intime commendare: very kindly, *peramanter commendare: To commend anybody very strongly by letter, ad aliquem de aliquo scribere diligentissime: to have anybody commended to one, commendatum sibi aliquem habere: to commend one’s self to anybody’s love and protection, se commendare alicujus amori et fidei: to endeavour to commend one’s self to anybody, quaerere sibi apud aliquem commendationem: To commend one’s self, gratum esse; placere; probari (all of things) to commend one’s self by anything, se commendare aliqua re (of persons) commendari aliqua re (of things): to commend itself (with emphasis on the self; i. e., by its own good qualities), suapte natura gratum esse. (the words are found in this connexion and order.) commendare et committere. I commend this property of mine to your honour and safe-keeping, bona nostra haec tibi permitto et tuae mando fidei. demandare is “to commit as a charge,” e.g., unius magistri curae plures liberos demandare: For Commend = praise, Vid: PRAISE.