KJV Dictionary Definition: salutation

salutation

SALUTA'TION, n. L. salutatio. See Salute.

The act of saluting; a greeting; the act of paying respect or reverence by the customary words or actions; as in inquiring of persons their welfare, expressing to them kind wishes, bowing, &c. Luke 1. Mark 12.

In all public meetings and private addresses, use the forms of salutation, reverence and decency usual among the most sober people.

salute

SALU'TE, v.t. L. saluto; salus or salvus.

1. To greet; to hail; to address with expressions of kind wishes.

If ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Matt 5.

2. To please; to gratify. Unusual.

3. To kiss.

4. In military and naval affairs, to honor some person or nation by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by striking colors, by shouts, &c.

SALU'TE, n.

1. The act of expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.

2. A kiss.

3. In military affairs, a discharge of cannon or small arms in honor of some distinguished personage. A salute is sometimes performed by lowering the colors or beating the drums. The officers also salute each other by bowing their half pikes.

4. In the navy, a testimony of respect or deference rendered by the ships of one nation to the ships of another, or by ships of the same nation to a superior or equal. This is performed by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, striking the colors or top-sails, or by shouts of the seamen mounted on the masts or rigging. When two squadrons meet, the two chiefs only are to exchange salutes.

saluted

SALU'TED, pp. Hailed; greeted.

saluter

SALU'TER, n. One who salutes.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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