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salutatory
UK /səˈljuː.təˌtɜːɹ.iː/ US /səˈluː.təˌtɔːɹ.iː/
noun 2adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
editorial
VERB + SALUTATORY
deliver
SALUTATORY + NOUN
commencement, mallet, mrs, oration
PREP.
in
Definitions
adj
1
Characteristic of or relating to a salutation or greeting.
a salutatory oration
a salutatory editorial
noun
1
A greeting; an address, speech or article of greeting; the first editorial by the new editor of a newspaper or periodical; an introduction or preface.
She was chosen to deliver the salutatory at the commencement ceremony.
The first daily newspaper in the world was established and edited by a woman, Elizabeth Mallet, in London, March, 1702. It was called The Daily Courant. In her salutatory, Mrs. Mallet declared she had established her paper to “spare the public at least half the impertinences which the ordinary papers contain.”
2
A place for saluting or greeting.
[…] 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.
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a salutatory oration
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a salutatory editorial
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a salutatory address
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She was chosen to deliver the salutatory at the commencement ceremony.
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The first daily newspaper in the world was established and edited by a woman, Elizabeth Mallet, in London, March, 1702. It was called The Daily Courant. In her salutatory, Mrs. Mallet declared she had
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[…] a robin red-breast, winging his way from the orange and jasmine boughs of the far sweet South, rested on the ivied wall, and poured out his happy heart in a salutatory to the rising sun.
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