regreet

English

Etymology

re- +‎ greet

Pronunciation

(noun) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːɡɹiːt/
(verb) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈɡɹiːt/

Noun

regreet (plural regreets)

A return or exchange of salutations.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  Unyoke this seizure , and this kind regreet

Verb

regreet (third-person singular simple present regreets, present participle regreeting, simple past and past participle regreeted)

To greet again; to return a salutation to; to greet.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 1, scene 3]:
  Nor never look upon each other's face;
  Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for regreet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

greeter

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