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单词 to greet fair, friendly, well
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to greet (a person) fair, friendly, well
a. To accost or address with the expressions of goodwill or courtesy usual on meeting; to offer in speech or writing to (a person) the expression of one's own or another's friendly or polite regard. Now only literary. †Formerly often to greet (a person) fair, friendly, well.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > greet or salute
greetOE
i-gretec1000
hailc1175
anourec1300
saluec1300
hailse1377
salutec1380
salusc1440
halsec1480
begreet1513
enhalse1563
congratulate1589
halch?c1600
regreet1607
to give the day (to)1613
OE Beowulf 614 Cwen..grette..guman on healle.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 18 Ongunnon hine þus gretan hal wes þu iudea cyning.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 121 Þet folc..hine greite and cleopede king on bismer.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2417 Wha-swa oðerne imette þer fæire hine igrætte [c1300 Otho grette].
c1325 Lay le Freine 257 The abbesse and the nonnes alle, Fair him gret in the gest-halle.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2170 Go forth..& gret wel my doȝtre dere.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4339 Quen he had hir hend-li gret.
c1410 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (Gibbs MS.) iv What tyme þat oure blessed lady grette Elizabeth.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 974 Rycht gudlye he with humylnes him gret.
1553 Queen Mary I in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) III. ii. 171 (App. i. 3) We grete you well.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. v. 13 There's other of our friends Will greet vs heere anon. View more context for this quotation
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Greet (old Word), to salute.
?1728 R. Blair Poem to W. Law 7 If..thou greets Heav'n's King, and shoutest thro' the..Streets.
1794 W. Jones tr. Inst. Hindu Law ii. §132 The wife of his brother..must be saluted every day; but his paternal and maternal kinswomen need only be greeted on his return from a journey.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xxii. 23 Greet the father well from me.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxix. 501 I had passed Jane Rodgers..and having just greeted her, had gone on.
figurative.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B5v He tumbling downe aliue, With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis, Greeting his graue.1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Ev With neare embracements Weeuer, Mersey met, And both together th' Irish Seas they gret.a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 60 Not a friend greet My poore corpes. View more context for this quotation
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