resalute

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹiːsəˈluːt/

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To greet in return. [15th-18th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.7:
      Whereas the Priestes she found full busily / About their holy things for morrow Mas; / Whom she saluting faire, faire resaluted was […].
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.48:
      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.
  2. (now rare) To salute again. [from 16th c.]

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