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salutary, a. (and n.)|ˈsæljʊtərɪ|
[ad. F. salutaire (see salutaire) or its source L. salūtāris, f. salūt-em, salūs health, well-being: see -ary2.]
1. Conducive to health; chiefly, serving to promote recovery from disease, or to counteract a deleterious influence.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Ad. §1. 15 Abana and Pharpar..were not so salutary as the waters of Jordan to cure Naamans leprosie. 1685Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 225 Experience hath oblig'd Physicians to divide Crises's..into Salutary, that quite deliver the Patient, and Mortal, that destroy him. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 83 ⁋5 The man that first..climbed the mountains for salutary plants. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 June, At Brambleton Hall, I..breathe a clear, elastic, salutary air. 1810E. D. Clarke Trav. Russia xv. (1839) 69/1 When a current sets in from the sea, it [the water of the Sea of Azof] is more salutary. 1872T. Bryant Pract. Surg. 119 When due to plethora of the vessels from any cause, it [sc. epistaxis] is often salutary.
2. Conducive to well-being; calculated to bring about a more satisfactory condition, or to remedy some evil; beneficial, ‘wholesome’. Often with figurative notion of sense 1.
In early instances often = ‘bringing salvation’.
1490Caxton Eneydos xii. 43 Consideringe the waye salutary to reuerte sone her sorow in to gladnesse. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. Q ij, The sayd dissease is penaunce salutary for the saluacion of theyr soules. 1729Stackhouse Body Divin. iv. i. §2 (1776) II. 422 The blessings of Christ's salutary passion. 1741Middleton Cicero II. xii. 569 Cicero's [virtue] will be found..always beneficial, often salutary to the Republic. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 154 The French..I look upon to be our natural and salutary enemies. They..hold us in exercise, and keep quarrelsome people from falling out among themselves. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 360 The plot which ruined Bohun..produced important and salutary effects. 1865Livingstone Zambesi ii. 45 The natives having a salutary dread of the guns.
†3. absol. as n. pl. (See quot.) Obs.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Salutaries (Med.), such diseases as admit of an easy cure, and are supposed to have a salutary effect on the constitution. |