salvatory
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin salvatorium, from salvare (“to save”).
Noun edit
salvatory (plural salvatories)
- (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