ppl. a. [f. COMMEND v. + -ED.) Mentioned as worthy of approval; recommended, praised, approved.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 7 b. The hye and comended ordre of knighthode.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., II. i. 271. I charme you, by my once commended Beauty.
1873–4. Edin. Univ. Calendar, 181 (Class Prize Lists), Highly Commended.—Browning, Campbell, etc.
b. Bound by feudal commendation.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. vii. 188. The protection which the commended freeman received from his lord.
