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salutatory, a. and n.|səˈljuːtətərɪ|
[ad. L. salūtātōrius, f. salūtāre to salute.]
A. adj.
a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a salutation.
1895Critic 19 Jan. 57/2 Henry Ward Beecher's salutatory editorial. 1898J. 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.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. Introd. (1852) 13 These exercises were, besides an oration usually made by the President, orations both salutatory and valedictory. 1846Worcester (citing Kirkland), Salutatory, containing salutations; greeting, as ‘a salutatory oration’ (U.S.). 1940W. 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. 1947E. A. Kaump High School Commencement Bk. (rev. ed.) 93 (heading) The Salutatory. Ibid., The Salutatory address is another honor speech..given by the student who makes the second highest average during the high school years.
c. Gram. [tr. L. salutatorius casus.] salutatory case: the vocative case.
1818Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 32/2 The fifth case is the vocative or salutatory.
B. n.
†1. [= med.L. salūtātōrium.] An audience-chamber; spec. in a church or monastery, a chamber where visitors were received to give their salutations.
1641Milton Reform. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 63 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. 1656Blount Glossogr., 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.
1869‘Mark Twain’ in Buffalo (N.Y.) Morning Express 21 Aug. 2/3 Your new editor feels called upon to write a ‘salutatory’ at once. 1880Scribner's Mag. July 455 Its salutatory is worth quoting as a piece of brave crowing. 1887Lit. World (U.S.) 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.
1779Pennsylvania Packet 7 Oct. 1/1 John Woodword [gave] the salutatory in Latin. a1851Amherst Indicator II. 96 (Hall College Words) We ask our friends..not to ask if he had the Valedictory or Salutatory. 1864Harper's Mag. Sept. 501/1 Still another is the burlesque philosphical oration and the half Latin, half Saxon Salutatory. 1905N.Y. Even. Post 12 June 12 The annual class day exercises of the University of Pennsylvania were held to-day. H. B. Taylor delivered the salutatory. 1932School Life May 165/1 On 85 occasions fond..parents had listened to the same old story: Salutatory, oratory, valedictory. 1947[see A. b above].
Hence saˈlutatorily adv. (rare), by way of greeting or salutation.
1847in Webster. 1863Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlh. vi, ‘Well, Melindy’, said Mrs. Griggs, salutatorily. |