Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REC-OM-MEND', v.t. [re and commend; Fr. recommander.]

1. To praise to another; to offer or commend to another's notice, confidence or kindness by favorable representations. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus. – Dryden. [In this sense, commend, though less common, is the preferable word.]
2. To make acceptable. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, / Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. – Pope.
3. To commit with prayer. Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God. – Acts xv. [Commend here is much to be preferred.]