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salutiferous, a.|sæljuːˈtɪfərəs|
Also 6 salutiferus.
[f. L. salūtifer (f. salūt- health, safety, salvation + -fer bringing) + -ous: see -ferous.]
1. Promoting or conducive to health.
1604F. Herring Mod. Defence 35 Safe, wholesome and salutiferous Medecins. 1696Tryon Misc. Pref. 4 The pleasant influences and salutiferous Breezes of Wind in a hot season. 1747Gentl. Mag. 77 Such exercise is not much less salutiferous than riding. 1752C. Smart Hop-Gard. i. 41 Tunbridgia's salutiferous hills. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxviii, As soon as the ancient priestess had handed him his glass of the salutiferous water. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. iv. (1872) X. 41 Forcing-on his salutiferous drains and fruitful canals through the morasses of the Weichsel.
2. Conducive to well-being, safety, or salvation. (Very common in the 17th c.)
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 209 The fowntaine beetokened the salutiferus water of baptisme. 1629H. Burton Truth's Triumph 253 The sweet and salutiferous streames of the waters of life. 1636R. Brathwait Rom. Emp. 139 France: Which he furnished with things necessary, salutiferous, good Lawes and customes. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 63 He means to instruct us in following his salutiferous steps. 1760S. Fielding Ophelia I. xxx. 266 Her Ladyship thought Fasting and Mortification most salutiferous for my Soul.
Hence saluˈtiferously adv.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 509 The Chief Prince of this great City..who governeth all things salutiferously. 1696Tryon Misc. v. 142 [The] Preparations [of Corn Foods]..are very wholsom and salutiferously used in many Countries. |