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Vassal vs Salve - What's the difference?

vassal | salve |

In transitive terms the difference between vassal and salve

is that vassal is to subordinate to someone or something while salve is to say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.

As an adjective vassal

is resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

As an interjection salve is

hail; a greeting.

vassal

English

Alternative forms

* vasal (rare)

Noun

(wikipedia vassal) (en noun)
  • (historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
  • A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
  • * Milton
    • The vassals of his anger.

    Related terms

    * valet * varlet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

    • Verb

    (vassall)
  • To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
  • To subordinate to someone or something.

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    salve

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  • Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Verb

    (salv)
  • To calm or assuage.
  • To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  • * Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :
    • I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
  • To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  • * Spenser
    • But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
  • * Milton
    • What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
  • To salvage.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (salv)
  • (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
    • He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
  • (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

    • References

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    Etymology 3

    (etyl) (lena)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • hail; a greeting

    • Verb

    (salv)
  • To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
  • * Spenser
    • By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.

    Anagrams

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