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- noun obsolete Plural form of
commendator .
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Examples
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Stewart, as lay commendators; from 1586 to 1606 they were held by the Crown; from 1606 to 1635 by the Duke of Lennox; from 1635 to
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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The Church, however, with Knox at her head, was bent upon securing this indispensable provision, though it may well be supposed that now, with not only the commendators and pensioners but the bishops themselves and other ecclesiastical functionaries, inspirited and encouraged by the
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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