savior 
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our 
Saviour. 1 Tim. ii. 3. 
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Flither and the 
Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. Tit. i. 4. 
savioress, saviouress (sa'vior-es), n. [< savior, 
saviour, + -ess.] A female savior. [Bare.] 
One says to the blessed Virgin, Saviouress, save me ! 
Bp. Hall, No Peace with Rome. 
Polycrita Naxia, being saluted the saviourefts of her 
country. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 327. 
Saviotti's canals. Very delicate artificial pas- 
sages formed between the cells of the pancreas 
by injecting the duct under high pressure. 
savite (sa'vlt), . [<&m(seedef.) + -ite a .] In 
mineral., a zeolitic mineral from Monte Capor- 
ciano, Italy, probably identical with natrolite : 
named bv Bechi after M. Savi. 
savodinskite (sav-o-dins'klt), n. [< Savodin- 
ski, the name of a mine in the Altai mountains, 
+ -ite 2 .] The silver telluride hessite. 
savoir-faire (sav'wor-far'), . [P., skill, tact, 
lit. ' know how to do,' < savoir, know (< L. sapere, 
have discernment: see sapient, sarant), +faire, 
< li.facere, do : see fact.] The faculty of know- 
ing just what to do and how to do it; skilful 
management; tact; address. 
He had great confidence in his savoir faire. His talents 
were naturally acute, . . . and his address was free from 
both country rusticity and professional pedantry. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, xxxv. 
savoir-vivre (sav'wor-ve'vr), n. [F., good 
breeding, lit. 'know how to live,' < savoir, know 
(see above), + vivre, < L. vivere, live : see vivid.] 
Good breeding; knowledge of and conformity 
to the usages of polite society. 
savonette (sav-o-nef), n. [=D. savonet, awash- 
ball, < F. savonette, a wash-ball, dim. of savon, 
soap, < L. sapo(n-), soap : see soap.'] 1 . A kind 
of soap, or a detergent for use instead of soap : 
a term variously applied. 2. A West Indian 
tree, Pithecolobium micradenium, whose bark 
serves as a soap. 
savor, savour (sa'vor), n. [< ME. savour, sa- 
vor, savur, < OF. savour, savor, F. saveur = Pr. 
Sp. Pg. sabor = It. sapore, < L. sapor, taste, < 
sapere, have taste or discernment: see sapid, 
sapient. Doublet of sapor.] 1. Taste; flavor; 
relish ; power or quality that affects the palate : 
as, food with a pleasant savor. 
If the salt have lost his savour. Mat. v. 13. 
It will take the savour from his palate, and the rest from 
his pillow, for days and nights. Lamb, My Relations. 
2. Odor; smell. 
Whan the gaye gerles were in-to the gardin come, 
Faire floures the! founde of fele maner hewes, 
That swete were of sauor & to the sijt gode. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 816. 
A savour that may strike the dullest nostril. 
Shak., W. T., i. 2. 421. 
3f. An odorous substance ; a perfume. 
There were also that used precious perfumes and sweet 
savors when they bathed themselves. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 576. 
4. Characteristic property; distinctive flavor 
or quality. 
The savour of death from all things there that live. 
MUton, P. L., x. 269. 
The savour of heaven perpetually upon my spirit. 
Baxter. 
5. Name; repute; reputation; character. 
Ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of 
Pharaoh. Ex. v. 21. 
A name of evil savour in the land. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
6. Sense of smell; power to scent or perceive. 
[Bare.] 
Beyond my savour. 0. Herbert. 
7t. Pleasure; delight. 
Ac I haue no sauoure in songewarie, for I se it ofte faille. 
Piers Plowman (B), vii. 148. 
Thou never dreddest hir [Fortune's] oppressioun, 
He in hir chere founde thou no savour. 
Chaucer, Fortune, I. 20. 
I finde no sauour in a meetre of three sillables, nor in 
effect in any odde ; but they may be vsed for varietie sake. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 58. 
= Syn. 1. Flavor, Smack, etc. See taste. 2. Scent, Fra- 
grance, etc. See smell. 
savor, savour (sa'vor), (. [< ME. savouren, stt- 
voren, savereii, < OF. (and F.) savourer = Pr. 
s6orar = Sp. Pg. saborear = It. saporare, < ML. 
saporare, taste, savor (cf. LL. saporatus, sea- 
soned, savory), < L. sapor, taste: see savor, n.] 
I. intrans. 1. To taste or smell; have a taste, 
flavor, or odor (of some particular kind ov qual- 
ity). 
Nay, thou shalt drynken of another tonne 
Er that I go, shal savoure wors than ale. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 171. 
But there thai wol be greet and savoure well. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 83. 
5359 
What is loathsome to the young 
Savours well to thee and me. 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 
2f. To have a bad odor; stink. 
He savours; stop your nose ; no more of him. 
Middleton, Michaelmas Term, i. 1. 
Fie ! here be rooms savour the most pitiful rank that 
ever I felt. B. Jonson, Poetaster, ii. 1. 
3. To have or exhibit a peculiar quality or 
characteristic; partake of the nature ; smack: 
followed by of: as, his answers savor of inso- 
lence. 
Your majesty's excellent book touching the duty of a 
king : a work . . . not savouring of perfumes and paint- 
ings, as those do who seek to please the reader more than 
nature beareth. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 279. 
The people at large show a keenness, a cleverness, and a 
profundity of wisdom that savors strongly of witchcraft. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 309. 
To savor of the pan or of tne frylng-pant. See pani . 
II. trans. It. To perceive by taste or smell ; 
smell; hence, to discern; note; perceive. 
I do neither see, nor feel, nor taste, nor savour the least 
steam or fume of a reason. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1. 
Were it not that in your writings I savour a spirit so 
very distant from my disposition . . . 
Heylin, Certamen Epistolare, p. 8. 
2. To exhibit the characteristics of; partake of 
the nature of; indicate the presence of; have 
the flavor or quality of. 
I cannot abide anything that savours the poor over- 
worn cut. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 
His father, being very averse to this way (as no way 
savoring the power of religion), . . . hardly . . . consent- 
ed to his coming hither. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 203. 
3f. To care for ; relish ; take pleasure in ; en- 
joy; like. 
Savour no more than thee bihove shal. 
Chaucer, Truth, 1. 5. 
He savoureth neither meate, wine, nor ale. 
Sir T. More, The Twelve Properties of a Lover. 
Thou savourest [mindest, R. V.] not the things that be 
of God, but those that be of men. Mat. xvi. 23. 
Sometime the plainest and the most intelligible rehearsal 
of them [psalms I yet they [the reformers] savour not, be- 
cause it is done by interlocution. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 37. 
Savours himself alone, is only kind 
And loving to himself. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 2. 
4f. To please; give pleasure or satisfaction to; 
suit. 
Good conscience, goo preche to the post ; 
Thi councel sauerith not my tast. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 61. 
5. To give savor or flavor to; season. 
Fele kyn flsche 
Summe baken in bred, summe brad on the glede, 
Summe sothen, summe in sewe, sauered with spyces, 
& ay sawes so siege, that the segge lyked. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 891. 
The Romans, it would appear, made great use of the 
leek for savouring their dishes. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 409. 
savorert, savourert (sa'vor-er), n. One who 
savors or smacks of something; one who favors 
or takes pleasure in something. 
She [Lady Eleanor Cobham] was, it seems, a great sa- 
vourer and favourer of Wickliffe's opinions. 
Fuller, Ch. Hist., IV. ii. 61. 
savorily, savourily (sa'vor-i-li), adv. l. In a 
savory manner ; with a pleasing relish. 
Sure there 's a dearth of wit in this dull town, 
When silly plays so savourily [Globe eA.,savourly] go down. 
Dryden, King Arthur, Prol., 1. 2. 
The better sort have Fowls and Fish, with which the 
Markets are plentifully stored, and sometimes Buffaloes 
flesh, all which is drest very savourily with Pepper and 
Garlick. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 129. 
2f. With gusto or appetite; heartily; with 
relish. 
Hoard up the finest play-scraps you can get, upon which 
your lean wit may most sanourily feed, for want of other 
stuff. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 149. 
savoriness, savouriness (sa'vor-i-nes), n. Sa- 
vory character or quality; pleasing taste or 
smell: as, the savoriness of an orange or of 
meat. 
savoringt, savouringt (sa'vor-ing), . [< ME. 
savoryrif/e; verbal n. of savor, v.] Taste; the 
sense of taste. 
Certes delices been after the appetites of the five wittes, 
as sighte, herynge, smellynge, savori/nge, and touchynge. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
savorless, savourless (sa'vor-les), a. [< sa- 
vor + -less.] Destitute of flavor; insipid. 
As a child that seeth a painted apple may be eager of 
it till he try that it is savourless, and then he careth for 
it no more. Baxter, Crucifying the World, vi. 
savory 
savorlyt, savourlyt (sa'vor-li), a. [< ME. *sa- 
vorly, saverly; < savor + -ly 1 .] Agreeable in 
flavor, odor, or general effect ; sweet; pleasant. 
I hope no tong most endure 
No sauerly saghe say of that syjt, 
So watg hit clene & cler & pure. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 220. 
savorlyt, savourlyt (sa'vor-li), adv. [< ME. 
savourly, saverly; < sarnrly, a.] With a pleasing 
relish; heartily; soundly. 
The! wolde not a-wake the kynge Arthur so erly, ne 
his companye that slepten sauourly for the grete trauaile 
that thei hadde the day be-fore. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 415. 
And for a good appetite, we see the toiling servant feed 
savourly of one homely dish, when his surleited master 
looks loathingly on his far-fetched and dearly-bought 
dainties. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 140. 
savorous, savourous (sa'vor-us), a. [< ME. 
savorous, savourous, saverous, < OF. savoitreux, 
saverous, F. savourenx = Pr. saboros = Sp. 
sabroso = Pg. saboroso = It. saporoso, < ML. 
saporosus, having a taste, savory, < L. sapor, 
taste: see savor.] Agreeable to the taste; 
pleasant. 
Hir mouth that is so gracious, 
So swete, and eke so saverous. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 2812. 
savory 1 , savoury (sa'vor-i), a. [< ME. savori, 
savery; < savor + -j/i.] If. Having a flavor. 
If salt be vnsauori, in what thing schulen 36 make it 
sauori ? Wyclif, Mark ix. 50. 
Tho that sitten in the sonne-syde sonner aren rype, 
Swettour and sauerwur and also more grettoure 
Than tho that selde hauen the sonne and sitten in the 
north-half. Piers Plowman (C), xix. 65. 
2. Having savor or relish ; pleasing to the or- 
gans of taste or smell (especially the former); 
appetizing; palatable; hence, agreeable in gen- 
eral: as, savory dishes; a savory odor. 
Let hunger moue thy appetyte, and not sauery sauces. 
Habees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 105. 
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring 
it to me, that I may eat. Gen. xxvii. 4. 
They [Tonquinese] dress their food very cleanly, and 
make it savory : for which they have several ways unknown 
in Europe. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 30. 
3f. Morally pleasing; morally or religiously 
edifying. 
One of Cromwell's chief difficulties was to restrain his 
pikemen and dragoons from invading by main force the 
pulpits of ministers whose discourses, to use the language 
of that time, were not savoury. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i. 
4 . In good repute ; honored ; respected. [Ob- 
solete or provincial. ] 
I canna see why I suld be termed a Cameronian, espe- 
cially now thatye hae given the name of that famous and 
savoury sufferer . . . until a regimental band of soul- 
diers, whereof 1 am told many can now curse, swear, and 
use profane language as fast as ever Richard Cameron 
could preach or pray. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xviii. 
Savory 2 (sa'vor-i). n. [Early mod. E. also sa- 
vorie, savery ;"< ME. savery, saverey, savereye, 
saveray, saferay, < OF. savoree, also sadree, 
sadariege, saturige (> ME. saturege), F. savoree 
= Pr. sadreia = Sp. sagerida, axedrea = Pg. 
segurelha, cigurelha, saPuragem = Olt. savo- 
reggia, savorella, It. santoreggia (with intru- 
sive n), satureja = ME. satureie = MLG. satu- 
reie = G. saturei = Dan. saturej = Pol. czaber, 
czabr = OBulg. shetraj, shetraja, < L. satureia, 
fi 
Flowering Plant of Savory (Safuret'a hortensis}. 
a, corolla ; b, calyx ; c, pistil. 
