Definition of "commendator" [com•mend•a•tor]

• A cleric who held a commendam. (noun)

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• "The most usual arrangement for the division of the profits of the adventure was that the _commendatarius_ should receive one-fourth and the _commendator_ three-fourths."
• "The legitimacy of the profits of the _commendator_ never seems to have caused the slightest difficulty to the canonists."
• "This happened about 1528, and in 1539 the office of commendator was given to Robert, natural son of James V., while still an infant."