all-hail

See also: all hail

English

Etymology

Verbalised from the expression all hail.

Verb

all-hail (third-person singular simple present all-hails, present participle all-hailing, simple past and past participle all-hailed)

(transitive, poetic, obsolete) To salute; to greet.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
  Missives from the king, who all-hailed me Thane of Cawdor

Translations

to salute

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