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City Council to adopt the following new rule under Chapter IV, Council Meeting Days and Time, Order of Business, and Quorum: Commendatory presentations,including Introductions, shall be limited to a total of 8 at such presentations each Friday,or the next or previous regular meeting..

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Ingenuity; being none of the least of _Apollo's_ Sons; for his excelling vein in Poetry, which produc'd a Volume of Poems, publisht not long after his Death, and usher'd into the World by Commendatory

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Commendatory of Arbroath, or Aberbrothock, reserving to himself, during life, the half of its revenues.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Another favourite diplomatic and financial device, which was invented by these famous Popes of Avignon, was the system of the "Commende," which enabled relatives of nobles and all those whom it was desirable to placate, not alone ecclesiastics, but mere laymen and bloody barons, to become "Commendatory Abbots" or "Commendatory Priors," and to receive at least one-third of the monastery's revenues, without being in any way responsible for the monastery's welfare.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

"Commendatory Abbots" (secular ecclesiastics who held an abbacy not in titulo, but in commendam) had their origin in the system of commendation prevalent during the eighth and succeeding centuries.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

There are still a few commendatory abbots among the cardinals; Pope Pius X himself was Commendatory Abbot of the Benedictine monastery at

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Commendatory abbots were introduced in 1550, amongst those that held the benefice being Cardinal Mazarin.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

[Commendatory on behalf of a man reduced from wealth to poverty, with three children, and anxious about his rating.]

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

[Commendatory, with the mention of a place called Capralis.]

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

It is the Abbaye of Aucline of which he is Commendatory, and which is at much about the same distance from Lille as the other.

Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878