resalute
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin resalutare; or formed from re- + salute.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]resalute (third-person singular simple present resalutes, present participle resaluting, simple past and past participle resaluted)
- (obsolete) To greet in return. [15th–18th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Whereas the Priestes she found full busily / About their holy things for morrow Mas; / Whom she saluting faire, faire resaluted was […].
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.48:
- Hippocrates, after a little pause, saluted him by his name, whom he resaluted, ashamed almost that he could not call him likewise by his, or that he had forgot it.
- (now rare) To salute again. [from 16th c.]