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Commendatory vs Commentatory - What's the difference?

commendatory | commentatory |

As adjectives the difference between commendatory and commentatory

is that commendatory is serving to commend or compliment; complimentary while commentatory is of or relating to a commentary.

As a noun commendatory

is a commendation; eulogy.

commendatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary
  • * Alexander Pope
    • commendatory verses
  • Holding a benefice in commendam .
    • a commendatory bishop
    (Burke)

    Noun

    (commendatories)
  • A commendation; eulogy.
    • Commendatories to our affection. — Sharp.

    commentatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to a commentary
  • *{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Robert Lynd, title=The Art of Letters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is a thoughtless scattering of acceptable words and is as unlike the review conceived as a portrait as is the hostile kind of commentatory review which I have been discussing. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, title=Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The latter has a commentatory letter to this end, from Gen. Jackson, dated the 19th of March, which denotes an interest on this topic that argues favorably of his views of moral things. " }}