commend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To praise someone or something formally.

   The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the fire.

2. 2
   verb

   To recommend something as worthy or good.

   The new policy has little to commend it.

3. 3
   verb

   To entrust someone or something to another's care.

   Before leaving, she commended her children to her mother's care.

From Middle English commenden, from Old French comender, from Latin commendō (“commend, entrust to, commit, recommend”), from com- + mandō (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dō (“to put”). Doublet of command.

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