salven.1
/salv/, /sɑːv/, U.S. /sæ(l)v/ 1. figurative.1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. cxxixv As when we saye of a wanton childe, this shepe hath magottes in his tayle, he must be anoynted with byrchin salve, which speach I borow of the shepardes.
a. A healing ointment for application to wounds or sores. See also eye salve n., lipsalve n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > ointment
salvea700
balsamumc885
smerlesa1000
balmc1220
salvinga1300
ointmentc1300
unguenty1721
magma1749
rub1867
a700 Epinal Gloss. 635 Malagma, salb.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 110 Genim þas yclan wyrte, wyrc to salfe [v.rr. sealfe, sealue].
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 5 Þeos sealf mihte beon geseald to þrim hund penegum.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6477 Þe þridde þatt teȝȝ gæfenn himm Wass an full deore sallfe..Myrra. bi name nemmnedd.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 272 Ure lauerdes sonde. þe bochte salue..to healen hire tittes.
c1315 Shoreham i. 18 And for þe goute sealue Me makeþe.
c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 631 Now kan nat Canacee but herbes delue Out of the ground and make saues [v.r. salues] newe.
14.. Sir Beues 605 (MS. M.) With drinke and salffe she helid hym softe.
c1480 (a1400) St. Anastasia 102 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 410 Bot mekly vald scho wesch þar fet, & with softe sawis þare saris bet.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 729/1 I splette a saulve abrode upon a clothe, je placque.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 32 If an old wife had onely applied her one salue for all sores.
1704 W. King Orpheus & Eurydice 152 She..bade him 'noint himself with salve; Such as those hardy people use, Who walk on fire without their shoes.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 242 Linen spread over with spermaceti salve.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xlv. 69 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And many a balsam grows on ground.
b. Formerly often (now archaic) in proverbial collocation with sore.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy > a remedy
salvea1300
plaster1340
booty1581
succedaneum1737
nostrum1741
silver bullet1951
magic bullet1992
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27397 Til all sares sere es sett, salues sere to be wit bett.
1399 J. Gower In Praise of Peace 122 Ley to this olde sor a newe salve.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xxi. 363 Where there is no sore there needes no salue.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 184 Or if better, Counsel or Consolation we may bring, Salve to thy Sores. View more context for this quotation
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Saw Ye hae a saw for ilka sair.
c. A mixture, usually of tar and grease, for smearing sheep.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > medicines or applications for sheep
salve1528
broom-salve?1530
grease?1530
sheep-smearing1824
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > smearing with tar or salve > salve
salve1528
broom-salve?1530
grease?1530
smear1802
sheep-smearing1824
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxiv To make brome salue [for sheep].
1837 Youatt Mountain Sheph. Man. 31 The scab—a disease which the common salve, made of tar and grease, seems effectually to resist.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1117 This compound..forms a salve for 100 sheep.
2. figurative.
a. A remedy (esp. for spiritual disease, sorrow, and the like). Now rare. See also 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy > mental, moral, or spiritual
salvec1175
medicine?c1225
physica1393
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13489 Iesumm. Mann kinne sawle sallfe...Himm hafe we nu fundenn.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 202 Prude Salue is edmodnesse.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 888 Ich helpe monne on eiþer halue, Mi muþ haueþ tweire kunne salue.
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 1133 Þank we now oure sa[u]youre, þat salue vs haþ broȝt, Oure syke soules to saue, whan synne haþ hem soȝt.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 370 Contricioun..Þat is the souereynest salue for alkyn synnes.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1245 I am so drad of monyes scantnesse..Wisseth me how to gete a golden salue.
c1430 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 203 And to my soule goosteli salue þou sende!
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3588 They sawe no maner selve ffor soris of hir hert.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Repentance ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 541 That they may receive at their hand the comfortable salve of God's word.
1574 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 766 Schir, ȝe knaw, This raritie will be ane saw, To mak the word estemit moir Nor euir it was heirtofoir.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus iii. xvii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 457 We haue deuised these letters, as a salue for this mischief.
c1610 S. Rowlands Terrible Battell 8 Sinne hath no salue but mercy.
b. esp. Something which serves to soothe wounded feelings or honour, a tender conscience, etc.This use has probably developed from a misinterpretation or punning acceptation of phrases containing salve n.4
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > act, means, or source of consolation or relief
froverOE
comfortc1386
easec1440
sport1440
consolationc1460
recreatoryc1475
balm1540
balsamumc1540
solace1597
unction1604
balsama1616
demulceation1661
demulsion1661
alleviative1672
mitigation1726
salve1736
soother1794
consolement1797
heart-balm1828
1736 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 669/1 This however was no Salve for the tender Consciences of the Quakers.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xli. 592 For them Horace had a salve in his specious disparagement of illustrious parentage.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 141 Ranald had this salve for his conscience.
1892 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. (new ed.) I. 54 Let us hope that this little salve to self-esteem never lost its efficacy.
c. slang. See quot., and cf. lipsalve n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun]
fickling?c1225
flattering?c1225
oluhningc1225
glozec1290
glozing1297
losengery1303
blandishingc1305
blandingc1315
flatteryc1320
glotheringc1325
soothinga1400
honey word?1406
faginga1425
flatrisec1440
smekingc1440
blandishc1475
blandiment?1510
glavering1545
coggingc1555
good1563
milksop1577
court holy water1583
glavery1583
blandishment1591
lipsalve1591
court holy bread1592
flatter1593
colloguing1596
sooth1597
daub?1602
blandation1605
lullaby1611
court-water1616
butter1618
blandiloquy1623
oil1645
court-element1649
courtshipment1649
courtship1655
blandiloquence1656
court-creama1657
daubing1656
fleecha1700
Spanish money1699
cajole1719
whiting1721
palaver1733
butter boat1747
flummery1749
treacle1771
Spanish coin1785
blancmange1790
blarney1796
soft corn1814
whillywha1816
carney1818
buttering up1819
soft soap1821
flam1825
slaver1825
soft solder1836
soothing syrup1839
soft-soaping1840
plámás1853
sawder1854
soap1854
salve1859
taffy1878
plámásing1897
flannel1927
smarm1937
flannelling1945
sweet talk1945
schmear1950
smarming1950
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 86 Salve, praise, flattery, chaff.
1896 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 21 Nov. Put plenty o' sauve on him an' tha'll get owght aht on him 'at iver tha wants to.
1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 21 Salve, getting on the right side of the arresting officer.
1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 14/1 Spread the salve, soft, conciliatory talk.
Compounds
salve-box n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > for ointments or unguents
alabastrumOE
alabaster1548
salvatory1549
salve-box1663
alabastron1816
1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iii. i. 28 A Sawf-box for a Wounded Conscience.
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† salven.2
Obsolete.
A salvo n.2 or discharge of firearms.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > simultaneous
volley1573
salve1577
salvo1591
volley-shot1689
platoon1706
fusillade1801
fusillading1839
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1781/2 At whose arriuall there..they sounded theyr Trumpettes, and with a thundering peale of great ordinance, gaue a lowde Salue to the Brytaynes.
1587 R. Williams Let. to Leicester 29 June (Galba D.i) 146 I and other English gentilmen will approch theire Boates in such sorte that we will force them to giue theire salue of Artillerie vppon vs.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 182 They made a Salue, euery one of the Musketiers three shot.
1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 66 They were prepared with a firme resolution to receive us with a salve of Cannon and Muskets.
1639 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline (ed. 2) cxx. 374 A salve is when 2, 3, or more rankes powre out all their shot together in one vollie.
1666 London Gaz. No. 47/2 In which state they entred the City of Naples, where the..Spanish Garrison, welcomed them with the continued thunder of the Cannons and salves of small shot.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiv. 288 The Thundring of Nineteen hundred Canons at a Salve.
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† salven.3
Obsolete.
Some kind of boat.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > other types of vessel > [noun]
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lumbar13..
trowc1330
linec1400
rampinc1500
skey1507
lique1523
sakre1546
salve1588
magara1592
bonaventure1592
centaur1622
Greenlander1692
jackass1826
1588 D. Archdeacon tr. True Disc. Armie King of Spaine 36 There are 20. Carauels for the seruice of the aboue named Armie, and likewise 10 Saluës with sixe Oares a peece. [Reproduced by Strype, Tindal and Hume.]
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† salven.4
Obsolete.
(a) A solution of a difficulty; also, a sophistical excuse or evasion. (b) A ‘salvo’ or means of ‘salving’ a person's honour, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [noun] > instance of
keyeOE
solutionc1384
resolutiona1542
salvea1628
solvent1865
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of
sophismc1350
fallacea1393
fallation1483
sophisticationa1492
fallax1530
fallacy1532
shift1545
elench1570
collusion1581
goose-trap1610
voidance1621
salvea1628
sophistry1673
wriggle1675
Jesuitism1749
special pleader1867
a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) i. 11 In their losse.. there be buried many delicate images, and differences, between the reall, and large complexions of those active times, and the narrow salves of this effeminate age.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiii. 366 While we referre it unto the Moone, we give some satisfaction for the Ocean, but no generall salve for Creeks, and Seas which know no floud. View more context for this quotation
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 114 The worst point in the case was that the Duke was a bastard,..nor was there other salve thereto but the Norman custome, that made no difference.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xi. 49 They will rather hazard their honour, which may be salved with an excuse; than their lives, for which no salve is sufficient.
1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne vi. 109 A discourse not capable of a Roman salve, but needing the spunge throughout, with a deleatur.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 24 in Scepsis Scientifica Whether what is said be a clear salve or a shuffle.
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salven.5
/ˈsalviː/ 1. The utterance of the word salvē (see above) or its equivalent; a greeting or salutation on meeting.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > [noun] > utterance of a greeting
salve1583
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 3v After he had curteously giuen her the Salue.
a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. F To salute thee with a Salue.
a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. B3v An interchange of salues passed betweene her and me.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 176 His Salve, or Present, when he came to his Disciples, [was] Peace be with you.
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 83 But the amaze soon went off with a salve tu quoque, and a Bottle of Wine.
2. (With capital initial. More fully Salve Regina.) In the Roman Catholic Church, an antiphon, beginning ‘Salve, Regina’, now recited after the Divine Office from Trinity Sunday to Advent; also sung as a separate office or ‘devotion’. Also, a musical setting for this.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > kinds of hymn > antiphonal > [noun] > used from Trinity to Advent
salve1428
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > antiphon > specific antiphon
salve1428
invitatory1483
reproaches1839
improperiums1880
1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 81 Also to-fore oure ladi in Senct Marie Chapell..1 Tapre of a pounde, to brenne euery euen of oure lady, and þe day as atte salue.
1486 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 5 That he be euery Day in the same Chirch after evensong, at the tyme of syngyng of Salue Regina.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. Cviij Item we fynde that for defaute of good prouision bothe of the chirche wardeyns and also of the mastirs of the salue neither the priestis nor clarkis that ben retayned for the chirche wil nat com to our lady masse nor salue.
1557–8 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 103 For the Syngyn men that song' at Salvy.
c1570 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 149 He dyd dyvers tymes help to singe salvaes at mattynes and even songe.
1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 529 The salmi, stabat maters, misereres, and salve reginas, with solo airs.
1888 Cent. Mag. Aug. 495/2 It is the hour of the Compline, the Salve, and the Angelus.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as †Salve time.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > kinds of hymn > antiphonal > [noun] > used from Trinity to Advent > Salve time
Salve time1439
1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 114 ij Tapers to stonde on the Auter of our lady..þer to be lighte and brenne at Salue tyme.
C2. † Salve-light n. Obsolete a candle lighted during the singing of the Salve.
ΚΠ
1486 Will of W. Cromwell in Misc. Gen. & Her. 3rd Ser. I. 95 To the lighting of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the same chapel, called Salvelight.
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salvev.1
/salv/, /sɑːv/, U.S. /sæ(l)v/ 1. † b. To anoint to an office. Obsolete.† d. intransitive. To smear salve upon a sore; in quot. 1579 figurative. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To anoint (a wound, wounded part) with salve or healing unguent. Obsolete or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > salve or anoint
salvea800
smearc950
anointa1375
supplea1425
epithem1543
assalve1570
baste1570
taint1578
scarify1596
obviscate1684
a800 Erfurt Gloss. 325 Delibutus, gisalbot.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 406/13 Fotam, sealfode.
a1400–50 Alexander (Dubl.) 3132 He gart seke þair sarys & þaim salue with suurgers noble.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 697/2 I salve, or playster a sore bodye with salves, je emplastre.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. Ev Where many skilfull leaches him abide, To salue his hurts, that yet still freshly bled.
1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (1654) i. 38 Where is he that salved and cured him which was wounded by the Theives?
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxvi. 176 There are some, who by all means would have Fractures salved and annointed.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. viii. 203 Marry, her husband that made the weapon might have salved the wound.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. iv. 50 Is there a wound on your limbs which my hands have not salved?
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > anoint [verb (transitive)] > to an office
salvec1175
enoil1340
oila1425
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13243 & crist bitacneþþ uss þatt mann Þatt smeredd iss. & sallfedd. Nohht þurrh nan eorþliȝ smere. acc all. Þurrh haliȝ gastess sallfe.
c. In figurative contexts, where the language is literal; esp. in to salve a sore. †Also with up.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > be relieved of [verb (transitive)] > console or relieve
froverc900
hearteOE
lighteOE
onlightc1175
salvec1175
leathc1200
solace1297
stillc1315
to put in comfortc1320
easec1385
comfort1389
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recomforta1400
ronea1400
solancea1400
cheer?a1425
acheerc1450
consolate1477
repease1483
dilla1500
recreate?a1500
sporta1500
dulcerate?1586
comfit1598
comfortize1600
reassure1604
sweeten1647
console1693
re-establish1722
release1906
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9427 Alls iff he brohhte læche dom. & herrtess eȝhe sallfe. To sallfenn & to clennsenn firrst. Þe follkess herrtess eȝhe.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 146 Þe gastliche hurtes ne þuncheð naut sare ne nesalueð ham wið schrifte.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxvi. 15 Þou ert god my hele þat salues þe wounde of my syn.
c1430 J. Lydgate Testament in Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 248 Sauf al my soorys that they nat cankryd be With noon old rust of disesperaunce.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9193 There is no medcyn on mold, saue the maiden one, þat my sors might salue, ne me sound make.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Lentulus in Panoplie Epist. 52 Al which sores I haue salued vp with apt plasters.
1604 T. Churchyard (title) A blessed Balme to search and salve Sedition.
1623 H. Hexham Tongue-combat 54 Matters..did..salve vp this sore from further festring.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 249 Since plain speech salves the wound it seems to make.
ΚΠ
1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 42 But after your discrediting of playmaking, you salue vppon the sore somewhat.
e. transitive. To smear (sheep) with a mixture of tar and butter, or the like. Cf. grease v. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment > to sheep
greasec1380
salve?1530
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > salve
greasec1380
salve?1530
smearc1535
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxiv A medicyne to salue poore mens shepe that thynke terre to costly.
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Bvijv A shepherde..which nother wolde nor coulde feade, handle, salue, nor ones see his shepe commytted to his charge.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 349 To salve sheep, to dress them with tar and grease.
1860 J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth Scarsdale II. 79 He would linger three or four days to help to ‘salve’ the sheep.
a. In extended sense: To heal or remedy (a disease). Chiefly figurative, to heal (sin, sorrow, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)]
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redress?c1425
recure?a1439
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sanate1623
sain1832
1411 26 Polit. Poems x. 164 Þe holy gost salueþ soule syknesse.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 7719 No tryacle may the venym saue.
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) xxvi. 253 Alle your langoris salvyn xal he.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 320/1 We are not worthie that God should salve our sinnes gently and with a fatherly affection.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 187 But Christ salueth this disease, for he fulfilled the lawe for vs.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. D3 Content thee sweet, ile salue thy sorow straight.
1624 F. Quarles Job Militant in Divine Poems (1717) 180 Why, rather, didst not thou remove my sin, And salve the sorrows that I raved in?
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. i. i. 210 They can..salue Gouts, Epilepsies..&c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person or part
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healc1000
betterOE
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savea1250
warishc1250
recurea1382
curec1384
mendc1390
remedya1470
cheerc1540
loosea1637
to pull through1816
rehab1973
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > save, redeem [verb (transitive)]
aleseOE
abyeOE
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washc1175
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savec1225
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signc1350
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gain-buy1435
redeemc1438
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sa'1604
electa1617
unsina1631
a1225 St. Marher. 22 Of þis sunne lauerd loke me nu salue.
a1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 202 For to saluen [Lamb. Hom. 187 sauuin] seke ine sunnen.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 212 Cryst to a comune woman seyde..Þat fides sua shulde sauen hir and saluen hir of alle synnes.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 303 Go salue þo þat syke ben and þorw synne ywounded.
c1440 York Myst. xx. 266 Þe sight of þe Hath salued vs of all oure sore.
c1440 York Myst. xxix. 263 He salued þame of sikenesse.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cii The king..prayt to ye grete god to grant him his grace Him to saue and to salf.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 599 His stripes are plasters to salve me.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. Q6 For seeking thus to salue the Amazon, She wounded was with her deceipts owne dart. View more context for this quotation
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > mitigate or alleviate
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lighteOE
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tranquillitate1657
soothe1711
?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing To Rdr. sig. a Neuer endeauoring to tame and salue their wilde appetites.
a. figurative. To heal, remedy, mend, make good, make up, smooth over (something amiss, a troubled state of affairs, a defect, offence, disgrace, dispute, etc.).In many examples not distinguishable from salve v.2
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)]
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1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 141 They seeke not to salue what is amisse.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. to Harvey ⁋1 Which default whenas some endevoured to salve and recure.
1587 R. Greene Penelopes Web sig. D The Lady Barmenissa,..still salued her want with labour and her pouertie with patience.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X7 But Ebranck salued both their infamies With noble deedes.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 509 If my conjecture missed the truth, the confession of my errour may salue it.
a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) i. i. 3 To salve the infamy Of my disgraced house.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 341 Which, 'tis thought, will salve the difference betwixt the two houses about the treason bill.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Salve the Matter, to make up a Business, so as to come off well.
1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 63 His Confirmation salved all defects.
ΚΠ
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiii. 217 That steward, whom his maister called to accompt, who reseruing a good portion of the goods to his owne behoofe, salued vp all his reckonings, and got his quietus est.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (iii. 2) 571 These speaches are farre off from saluing vp the matter.
a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 222 In observation of which direction I repaired to them, salved up all as dextrously as I could.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues ii. 230 There will be a Θεὸς ἀπὸ μηχανῆς, Christ coming in the Clouds, that shall salve up all.
4.
a. figurative. (From sense 1, after phrases containing salve v.2) To soothe, ‘lay flattering unction to’ (irritated feeling, ‘wounded pride’, an uneasy conscience, etc.). Also to salve over.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > beguile, cajole [verb (transitive)]
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to get within ——1572
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to cajole with1665
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veigle1745
flummer1764
to get round ——1780
to come round ——1784
to get around ——1803
flatter-blind1818
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to come about1829
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fanny1938
cosy1939
mamaguy1939
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1825 C. Lamb Unitarian Protests So long as you Unitarians could salve your consciences with the équivoque.
1831 T. Campbell Power of Russia 70 Rome could impart what Russia never can—Proud civic right to salve submission's shame.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xiv. 231 I salved over that feeling, being desirous to see everything in the brightest light.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour ii. xii. 63 At first Chousam would hear of nothing but ‘l-a-w’. Bullfrog's wounded honour could only be salved that way.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour v. xxv. 150 Jack salved his conscience over with the old plea of duty.
1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah vi. 171 Or any of the other benefits by which we seek to compensate the natives..and salve our own consciences.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. xv. 343 A supreme satisfaction—salving over many wounds of vanity.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 373 In the endeavour to salve their wounded pride.
b. to salve over: to talk over or persuade by smooth speech. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > persuasive flattery or cajolery > cajole [verb (transitive)]
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to wheedle with1664
to cajole with1665
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whillywha1816
to salve over1862
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plámás1919
sweet-talk1936
the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > persuade by talking > in specific manner
to salve over1862
fast-talk1945
handbag1982
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings I. xi. 157 ‘Lady Augusta and Dr. Burrows are great friends, you know’; and we hear that they have been salving over Pye—’ ‘Gently, Tom!’ put in Mr. Channing. ‘Talking over Pye, then,’ corrected Tom.
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† salvev.2
Obsolete.
1. Astronomy. To save v. (the appearances, the phenomena), i.e. to frame a hypothesis which will account for all the observed facts of the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies. Hence gen., to account for, explain by hypothesis. (Cf. solve v., used in the same phrases.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > theory > be explanatory [verb (transitive)]
solve1621
salve1625
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > make scientific [verb (transitive)] > explain scientifically
expound1375
solve1621
salve1625
to solve a phenomenon1625
to save the appearances1667
physiologize1678
the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > hypothesis > form a hypothesis [verb (transitive)] > explain by hypothesis
solve1621
salve1625
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vi. 140 To salue this Apparence, Ptolomy invented a slow motion of the Starry Heauen.
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie ii. iv. 95 Who to salue these different observations invented a new Hypothesis, which yet was not received by Astronomers of after times.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §2. 213 Serving to no other purpose but to salve the annuall motion of the earth.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii Conceits of eminent use to salve magneticall Phenomena's. View more context for this quotation
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxvi. 320 That circular motion (which is commonly attributed to them) about a fixed Axis,..is insufficient to salve their Appearances.
1662 R. Boyle Def. Doctr. Spring of Air ii. v. 57 To salve the Phænomena of the Torricellian Experiment.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §18 Such perplexities must needs arise, when men will undertake to salve the inward operations of the soul by meer motion.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 A remarkable Coincidence, which tho Astrology hath taken witty pains to salve, yet hath it been very wary in making Predictions of it.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xxix Inventers, whose discoveries have only salved the Phœnomena.
2.
a. To clear up, explain, account for (a difficulty, point in dispute, etc.); to overcome (a doubt, objection); to harmonize or reconcile (a discrepancy).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > find solution, solve [verb (transitive)]
findOE
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soil1382
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to find outc1405
resolvea1438
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to beat out1577
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metagrobolize1653
to puzzle out1717
to work out1719
to get around ——1803
to dope out1906
lick1946
to get out1951
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. xv. 56 Cambrensis, to salve the contradiction, thinkythe [etc.].
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 80 If the first doubt may be salued.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxii. §11. 558 So, by making the seuenteenth yeare of Ieroboam to be newly begun, all may be salued.
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 333 As for those Phrases then of Repenting, Grieving, &c. which are spoken of God in the Scriptures: that συγκατάβασις, whereof S. Chrysostome so often speaketh, salueth them.
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 25 What may we doe then to salve this seeming inconsistence?
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 35 To salve all, some have found out another Patrick, called Seniour, or Sen Patrick.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 82 And this does salve two Objections at once.
1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 3 The reason given by some Interpreters seems not sufficient to salve the Knot.
1685 R. Dunning Plain & Easie Method 11 This Exception may be thus salved.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature (1724) ix. 199 The objection before us, tho we could not salve the difficulties in it,..yet to be no prejudice against the belief of the immortality of the soul.
1744 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII I conceive, this will not salve the matter at all.
b. To explain away, excuse by a ‘salvo’.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > excuse (a person or fault) [verb (transitive)]
assoin?c1225
excusea1250
scusea1492
planea1513
salve1628
extenuate1741
palliate1862
1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 73 What answer can you make to mittigate or salue this bloody and soule-slaying sinne?
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. §20. 202 He flew out into some expressions indeed, but yet such as in other places he doth either salve or contradict.
3. To render tenable, obviate the objections to (an opinion); to vindicate from incredibility (an alleged fact).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > assure, make certain [verb (transitive)] > make firm, establish
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bishop1596
salve1596
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assign1664
determinate1672
settle1733
to set at rest1826
definitize1876
cinch1900
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > vindicate > vindicate from incredibility
salve1596
1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. ix. 397 To salue their beggerly doctrine.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God viii. xviii. §2 Such..labour to salve the truth of the Propheticall prediction.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 51 But the soul subsisting, other matter clothed with due accidents, may salve the individuality.
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 88 There was no way to salve the eternity or antiquity of the World..but by supposing innumerable deluges and deflagrations.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. v. 298 As the esse reale salves the infinity, so the esse formale does equally secure the ideality.
1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 116 To salve their Hypothesis, They make bold with the..Construction of the Words.
4.
a. To preserve or maintain unhurt (one's honour, credit, reputation, etc.). Hence, to preserve the credit of, make good (one's oath, etc.).In the later examples probably apprehended by the writers as a figurative use of salve v.1: see salve v.1 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > preserve from injury or destruction [verb (transitive)] > specifically an immaterial thing
savec1300
salve1596
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. sig. D6 To salue his name And purchase honour to his friends behalue. View more context for this quotation
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iv. iv. sig. K I deuis'd a formall tale, That salu'd your reputation. View more context for this quotation
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1629) i. 65 (margin) The Oracles were alwayes obscure, that evasion might be found to salue their credit.
a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover v. i. 27 in 3 New Playes (1655) My onely Child Being provided for, her honor salv'd too.
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Pref. 9 The gentleman hath in one respect salved the honor of his judgement.
1689 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 614 They were all for a Regency, thereby to salve their Oathes.
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 601 The Seamen, to salve their Credit, and to excuse their Error,..pretended that we were set in by a strong Current.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 262 He was forced to make use of an Equivocation to salve his Oath.
a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 433 His Truth in Threats to punish Guilt, Was salv'd in Blood of Jesus spilt.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iv. vii. 542 Those who believe that the character of the woman is salved by such a forced engagement.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxii. 133 An afterthought to salve decorum.
b. reflexive. To save one's credit.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > preserve from injury or harm [verb (reflexive)]
salve1657
spare1681
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ xii. 156 Unless perhaps they can think to salve themselves by saying [etc.].
c. With from: To clear from a charge or imputation of.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > exculpate > blame or an imputation
wipe1387
salve1685
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis viii. 13 Charles left behind no harsh decree For Schoolmen with laborious art To salve from cruelty.
d. To save the credit of (an author).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > have confidence in, trust [verb (transitive)]
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. ii. 182 In these considerations must Aristotle be salved, when hee affirmeth the heart of man is placed in the left side. View more context for this quotation
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salvev.3
/salv/, U.S. /sæ(l)v/ transitive. To save (a ship, its cargo) from loss at sea; to save (property) from destruction by fire; to make salvage of. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > rescue or deliver (from) [verb (transitive)] > property from fire, etc.
redd1487
save1582
salve1706
salvage1889
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > salvage
salve1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Salve, to save or preserve: as To Salve a Ship or the Goods of it.
1715 London Gaz. No. 5330/3 Clarets and White Wines salved..out of two Dutch Ships lost in January.
1796 J. Troutbeck Scilly Isles 229 Part of her cargo was driven on shore, and..consisted of wine and oil. After it was salved, some of the inhabitants insisted on one half in kind.
1885 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. (Cassell) Crews of twenty boats scattered all over the islands are salving as quickly as they can.
1888 in Pall Mall Gaz. 1 June 10/2 In 1886 this gun was salved, having lain nearly 100 years below the sea.
1901 Scotsman 11 Mar. 8/7 The Steamer..has stranded at the entrance to the harbour: means are being taken to lighten and salve her.
Derivatives
salved adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to salvage > salvaged
salved1893
1893 Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 8/3 The value of the salved vessel was £225,000.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 113 The small craft which clung to our side receiving the salved cargo.
ˈsalving n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [adjective] > relating to salvage
wrecking1804
salving1869
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 7/2 The wreck lying in a favourable position for salving operations.
1884 Law Rep.: Probate Div. 9 203 The salving vessel is often herself exposed to imminent peril.
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