resalute

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UK/ɹiːsəˈluːt/

verb

To greet in return.

OriginLatin resalutare →
First used 15th–18th c.Scrabble 8
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Meanings

verbresalute (third-person singular simple present resalutes, present participle resaluting, simple past and past participle resaluted)

present singular third person resalutes · participle present resaluting · participle past resaluted · past resaluted

  1. obsoleteTo greet in return.First known use 15th–18th c.

    Whereas the Priestes she found full busily / About their holy things for morrow Mas; / Whom she saluting faire, faire resaluted was […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    1 more example

    Hippocrates, after a little pause, saluted him by his name, whom he resaluted, ashamed almost that he could not call him likewise by his, or that he had forgot it.

    1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 48
  2. archaicTo salute again.First known use 16th c.

Origin

  1. Latinresalutare
  2. Englishresalute

From Latin resalutare; or formed from re- + salute.

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