"commendatory" meaning in English

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          "text": "1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irlande, London: John Hunne, The Historie of England, Kinewulfe, p. 198,\nIn the yeare of our Lorde .786. […] Pope Adrian sent two Lega[ts into] Englande […] with letters commendatory vnto Offa king of Mercia […]"
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          "text": "c. 1726, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift dated 8 March, in English Letters and Letter-Writers of the Eighteenth Century, London: George Bell, First Series, 1886, p. 470,\nYou received, I hope, some commendatory verses from a Horse, and a Lilliputian, to Gulliver; and an heroic Epistle to Mrs. Gulliver."
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          "ref": "1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 11, in The Mayor of Casterbridge",
          "text": "Some boys had latterly tried to impart gaiety to the ruin by using the central arena as a cricket-ground. But the game usually languished for the aforesaid reason—the dismal privacy which the earthen circle enforced, shutting out every appreciative passer’s vision, every commendatory remark from outsiders—everything, except the sky; and to play at games in such circumstances was like acting to an empty house.",
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        "Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary."
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          "text": "a commendatory bishop"
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          "text": "The bishoprics, and the great commendatory abbies, were, with few exceptions, held by that order.",
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        "Holding a benefice in commendam."
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  "word": "commendatory"
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          "ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, page 27",
          "text": "To him he adheres, resigns the whole ware-house of his religion, with all the locks and keyes into his custody; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.",
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          "text": "[…] what ever did but bear upon it the Image of God and the Superscription of the Holy Jesus, would need no other Commendatories to our Affection, but would upon that alone account be infinitely dear and pretious to us.",
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