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▪ I. ave, int. and n.|ˈeɪviː, ˈɑːveɪ|
Forms: 3–7 aue, 7 auee, 5– ave.
[a. L. avē, 2nd sing. imp. of avēre to be or fare well, used as an expression of welcome or farewell. (In earliest use = Ave Maria.)]
A. int. Hail! welcome!—Farewell! adieu!
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 151 Aue raby, quod þat ribaude..And kiste hym. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lvii, And ‘Ave, Ave, Ave,’ said, ‘Adieu, adieu’ for evermore.
B. n.
1. a. A shout of welcome. b. A farewell.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. i. 71 Their lowd applause, and Aues vehement. 1611Heywood Gold. Age i. i. Wks. 1874 III. 8 The people..Have shrild their Auees high. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 191 And for her Ave her sacrifice is bettered with..Jewels her kindred throw upon her.
2. Short for Ave Marie, q.v.
c1230Ancr. R. 18 Wendeð ou to vre Leafdi onlicnesse, & cneoleð mid fif auez. c1330Kyng of Tars 1116 Ur ladi with an avè he grette. c1430Freemasonry 622 Say thy pater noster and thyn ave. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 13 Every day..thrise nine hundred Aves, she was wont to say. 1808Scott Marm. i. xxvi, He sleeps before his beads Have marked ten aves.
b. Ave-bell: that rung at the hours when Aves are to be said.
1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. iii. (1636) 88 Dayly after three toulings of the Ave Bell. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ix. 336 The Ave bell, morning and evening, was instituted by Constitutions of 1347.
3. a. The time of ringing the Ave-bell. b. The beads on a rosary corresponding to the number of Aves repeated.
1463Bury Wills (1850) 29 The seid chymes to goo also at the avees. Ibid. 42 A peyre bedys of sylvir wt x. avees and ij. patern[oste]ris of sylvir and gilt.
▪ II. † ˈave, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec.; cf. to salvo.]
To greet with shouts of Ave; to hail, acclaim.
1611Heywood Gold. Age iii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 47 Wher's that Godhead With which the people Auee'd thee to heauen? |
