Enslaved vs Salve - What's the difference?
enslaved | salve |
(enslave)
To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
To calm or assuage.
To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
* Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :
To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
* Spenser
* Milton
To salvage.
(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).
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems
(obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse
To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between enslaved and salve
is that enslaved is past tense of enslave while salve is to calm or assuage.As a noun salve is
an ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.As an interjection salve is
hail; a greeting.enslaved
English
Verb
(head)enslave
English
Alternative forms
* inslaveVerb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* (l),Anagrams
*salve
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(salv)- I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
- But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
- What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(salv)- He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
References
*Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena)Verb
(salv)- By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.
