Meaning of siserary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A severe rebuke or scolding.
   obsolete
2. A sharp blow.
   obsolete

Examples

“[…] I retreated—retreated, Colonel, and without confusion or dishonour, and took post behind worthy Master Holdenough, who, with the spirit of a lion, threw himself in the way of the supposed spectre, and attacked it with such a siserary of Latin as might have scared the devil himself […]”

“1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 97, I ketched him in the very fect, coming out of the house-maid’s garret.—But I have gi’en the dirty slut a siserary.”

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