salvatory

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English

Etymology

From Latin salvatorium, from salvare (to save).

Noun

salvatory (plural salvatories)

  1. (obsolete) A place where things are preserved; a repository.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, , published 1677, →OCLC:
      the admirable powers of Sensation, of Phantalie, of Memory, in what Salvatories or Repositories the species of things past are conserved