recommendatio

recommendatio [ML < CL recommendare+-tio] 1 (act of) commending, commendation (in quot. of soul to God). habebatur in conventu, pro ~one quondam invictissimi regis Anglie ‥ officium mortuorum Chr. Angl. 265. 2 (act of) recommending (person or thing) as worthy or desirable. quem ‥ transmisit regine matri sue cum ~one supplici presentandum Eul. Hist. III 134. 3 (act of) commending or praising, commendation, praise. b greeting (in epistolary address). determinavit contra eum ‥ in materia ~onis, probando quod domini spirituales ‥ sunt ante dominos temporales recommendandi (Stokes) Ziz. 302; honorem et ~onem habere meruit Plusc. IX 25.  b 1218 suffimmo pontifici, H. ‥ rex, ~onem et pedum oscula Pat 184; reverendo patri Innocentio, Dei gratia summo pontifici, magnates et universitas regni Anglie, ~onem cum pedum osculo beatorum Flor. Hist. II 294; 1395 summo pontifici, post humillimam ~onem pedum oscula Reg. Heref. 114; beatissime pater, filiali debita ~one premissa Dictamen 341; regi Henrico ‥ frater Thomas de Walsigham [sic] ‥ humili cum ~one salutem Wals. YN 3; 1438 post ~ones obnixas ac pedum oscula beatorum (Lit. Regis ad Papam) Bekynton I 1.