the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > greet > offer formal greetings (2)
Phrases. to kiss the hand (hands) of a sovereign or superior, as a ceremonial greeting or leave-taking, or on appointment to an office of state…
intransitive. To employ ceremony or formal courtesy in act or expression; now only as absol. use of sense 2; ‘to use ceremonious or adulatory…