salve
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
salve (plural salves)
- An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
- French: onguent, pommade
- German: Salbe, Balsam
- Italian: unguento, balsamo, pomata
- Portuguese: pomada
- Russian: бальза́м
- Spanish: ungüento, pomada, bálsamo
- Italian: balsamo
salve (salves, present participle salving; past and past participle salved)
- (transitive) To calm or assuage.
- To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
- 1591, William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV:
- I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
- 1591, William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV:
- To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
- But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
- What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
- To salvage.
- Italian: salvare
salve (salves, present participle salving; past and past participle salved)
- (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
- (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
- Hail; a greeting.
salve (salves, present participle salving; past and past participle salved)
- (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
- By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.
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