SALUTATORY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.

2.
n.

A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch. [Obs.] Milton.

3.
n.

The salutatory oration.


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