recommendativeEtymologyFrom recommend + -ative.adjThat recommends; recomendatory.“The coffee-urn or pot should have on its brightest face, and all the recommendative warmth of its nature — ready for a free outpouring; the cream or boiled milk should not lack heat, and, not "to waste its sweetness" on the unappreciating air, should be contained in a covered pitcher of tin or other metal; the sugar-basin, whether of the same as the other dishes, or of metal, should be bright and ”nounThat which recommends; a recommendation.“If our English youth were trained up a great deal more, than they are at present, in the noble art of oratory, and better instructed in the rules and laws of speaking and action, the ornament and recommendative of all discourse; why might they not become as good speakers, as ever Greece and Rome yet produced ?”