commendatory

Adjective

 * 1) Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary.
 * 2) * 1577, et al., , London: John Hunne, The Historie of England, Kinewulfe, p.198,
 * In the yeare of our Lorde .786. Pope Adrian sent two Lega[ts into] Englande  with letters commendatory vnto Offa king of Mercia
 * 1) * c. 1726,, letter to dated 8March, in English Letters and Letter-Writers of the Eighteenth Century, London: George Bell, First Series, 1886, p.470,
 * You received, I hope, some commendatory verses from a Horse, and a Lilliputian, to Gulliver; and an heroic Epistle to Mrs. Gulliver.
 * 1) Holding a benefice .
 * a commendatory bishop
 * 1) Holding a benefice .
 * a commendatory bishop
 * a commendatory bishop

Noun

 * 1)  That which commends; a commendation; eulogy.