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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Greet

Greet (gret), a. Great. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Greet, v. i. [OE. greten, AS. grǣtan, grētan; akin to Icel. grāta, Sw. gråta, Dan. græde, Goth. grēctan; cf. Skr. hrād to sound, roar. √50.] To weep; to cry; to lament. [Obs. or Scot.] [Written also greit.] Spenser.

Greet, n. Mourning. [Obs.] Spenser.

Greet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Greeting.] [OE. greten, AS. grētan to address, approach; akin to OS. grōtian, LG. gröten, D. groeten, OHG. gruozzen, G. grüssen. √50.] 1. To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. Shak.

2. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

In vain the spring my senses greets. Addison.

3. To accost; to address. Pope.

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Greet (grēet), v. i. To meet and give salutations.

There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace. Shak.

Greet, n. Greeting. [Obs.] F. Beaumont.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.