Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Recommend

Recommend (r?k`?m*m?nd") , transitive verb

[Prefix re- + commend: compare French recommander.]

1.
To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.
Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises... have made him precious to posterity. — Dryden
2.
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. — Pope
3.
To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. — Acts xv. 40