recommendatory

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But the singer says he isn't through with the recommendatory sciences.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 8, 2010

On quitting the north, I had been charged with a letter for him by his father, which I knew, however, to be wholly recommendatory of myself, and so I had failed to deliver it.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

For this reason, recommendatory or precatory words used in a bequest are frequently treated as an express direction.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

I was to take with me letters recommendatory to a number of his friends, besides the letter of credit to furnish me with the necessary money for purchasing the press, types, paper, &c.

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin

In 1675, Molinos published a book entitled "Il Guida Spirituale," to which were subjoined recommendatory letters from several great personages.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John