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The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of commendatiom 2 Cor. iii. 1. By the commendation of the great officers. Bacon.

One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.

Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. "Commendatory verses." Pope.

One who commends or praises.

Having the character of a commensal.

The act of eating together; table fellowship.

lowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] "Promiscuous commensality." Sir T. Browne.

Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.

sure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inc…

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.

Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.

The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. South.

icular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope.

A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work. This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary. Hallam.

To write comments or notes upon; to make comments. [R.] Commentate upon it, and return it enriched. Lamb.

The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. [R.] The spirit of commentation. Whewell.

One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.