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Salutatory   Listen
adjective
Salutatory  adj.  Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges.



noun
Salutatory  n.  
1.
A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch. (Obs.)
2.
(American Colleges) The salutatory oration.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Salutatory" Quotes from Famous Books



... familiar is the fact that both the Atlantic Monthly and the Century (first called Scribner's) were set up by men in revolt against the reign of mush, as Putnam's and the Dial had been before them. The salutatory of the Dial, dated 1840, stated the case against the national mugginess clearly. The aim of the magazine, it said, was to oppose "that rigour of our conventions of religion and education which is turning us to stone" and to give expression to "new views and the dreams ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

... rights' and 'vested wrongs.' It claims to be the 'instructive companion' of the mechanics' and workingmen's leisure, 'the promotion of whose interests will ever form a leading feature of the Democrat.' And in the editorial salutatory it speaks thus: ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... is a native of Petersburg, Virginia, where his parents have long resided. At the age of sixteen he entered the Junior class of Brown University, at Providence, Rhode Island, and at the age of eighteen graduated with the salutatory honors of his class. In the same class were the Hon. S. S. Cox, Lieutenant Governor Francis Wayland, of Connecticut, and the Rev. James C. Fletcher, now so well known for his travels ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... John Quincy Adams, Harvard University conferred upon the distinguished visitor the honorary degree of doctor of laws. In the course of the ceremony one of the seniors delivered, in Latin, a salutatory concluding with the words: "Harvard welcomes Jackson the President. She embraces Jackson the Patriot." "A splendid compliment, sir, a splendid compliment," declared the honored guest after Woodbury had translated the phrases for his benefit; "but why talk about so live ...
— The Reign of Andrew Jackson • Frederic Austin Ogg

... happiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala-dress. And this reminds us that there is an incidental notice of the "dancing-school near the Orange-Tree," whence we may infer that the salutatory art was occasionally practised, though perhaps chastened into a characteristic gravity of movement. This pastime was probably confined to the aristocratic circle, of which the royal governor was the centre. But we are scandalized at the attempt of Jonathan Furness ...
— Old News - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne



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