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单词 salutatory
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salutatoryadj.n.

/səˈljuːtətəri/
Etymology: < Latin salūtātōrius, < salūtāre to salute v.
A. adj.
a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a salutation.
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1895 Critic (N.Y.) 19 Jan. 57/2 Henry Ward Beecher's salutatory editorial.
1898 J. R. Harris in Expositor Sept. 175 Jowett's argument for the authenticity of the Epistle is based on the salutatory formulae.
b. U.S. The distinctive epithet of the address of welcome (usually in Latin), which introduces the exercises of commencement in American colleges and high schools. It is delivered by the senior of second highest position in his class for four years, or sometimes by a junior who has the highest position in his class. Cf. valedictory adj. and n.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [adjective] > oration at ceremony
salutatory1702
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. i. 128/1 These Exercises were besides an Oration usually made by the President, Orations both Salutatory and Valedictory.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Salutatory, containing salutations; greeting, as ‘a salutatory oration’ (U.S.).
1940 W. L. Fink Evaluation Commencement Pract. Amer. Public Secondary Schools ii. 25 Time would not permit all of the members of the class to speak. Accordingly, certain pupils chosen on the basis of scholarship alone were given the honor of delivering the salutatory and valedictory addresses.
1947 E. A. Kaump High School Commencement Bk. (rev. ed.) 93 (heading) The Salutatory.
1947 E. A. Kaump High School Commencement Bk. (rev. ed.) 93 The Salutatory address is another honor speech..given by the student who makes the second highest average during the high school years.
c. Grammar. [translating Latin salutatorius casus.] salutatory case: the vocative case.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > vocative
vocativec1400
vocative casec1414
salutatory casea1831
compellative1849
a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 32/2 The fifth case is the vocative or salutatory.
B. n.
1. [= medieval Latin salūtātōrium.] An audience-chamber; spec. in a church or monastery, a chamber where visitors were received to give their salutations.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > audience-chamber
chamber of presence1538
presence1548
presence chamber1551
audience chamber1625
salutatory1641
salle d'audiencec1660
presence room1690
durbar1793
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 80 Coming to the Bishop with Supplication into the Salutatory, some out Porch of the Church, he was charg'd by him of tyrannicall madnes against God, for comming into holy ground.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Salutatory (salutatorium), a place where men stand to salute a Prince.
2. U.S.
a. An address or greeting to the reader of the first number of a newspaper or magazine.
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1869 ‘M. Twain’ in Buffalo (New York) Morning Express 21 Aug. 2/3 Your new editor feels called upon to write a ‘salutatory’ at once.
1880 Scribner's Monthly July 455 Its salutatory is worth quoting as a piece of brave crowing.
1887 Literary World (Boston) 25 June 206/2 In his salutatory the editor declares his paper to be ‘a very modest effort to assist in a practical way the “Literary Movement in Chicago”’.
b. The ‘salutatory oration’ (see A. b) delivered at ‘commencement’ in American colleges and high schools.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > oration at ceremony
salutatory1779
valedictory1847
1779 Pennsylvania Packet 7 Oct. 1/1 John Woodword [gave] the salutatory in Latin.
a1851 Amherst Indicator II. 96 in B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (1856) 400 We ask our friends..not to ask if he had the Valedictory or Salutatory.
1864 Harper's Mag. Sept. 501/1 Still another is the burlesque philosophical oration and the half Latin, half Saxon Salutatory.
1905 N.Y. Evening Post 12 June 12 The annual class day exercises of the University of Pennsylvania were held to-day. H. B. Taylor delivered the salutatory.
1932 School Life May 165/1 On 85 occasions fond..parents had listened to the same old story: Salutatory, oratory, valedictory.
19471 [see sense A. b].

Derivatives

saˈlutatorily adv. rare by way of greeting or salutation.
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1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood vi ‘Well, Melindy’, said Mrs. Griggs, salutatorily.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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