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siserary

siserary noun: a severe rebuke or scolding.

Noun

siserary (plural siseraries)

  1. (obsolete) A severe rebuke or scolding.
    • […] 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 […]1826, [Walter Scott], “[HTTPS://ARCHIVE.ORG/DETAILS/WOODSTOCKORCAVAL01SCOT CHAPTER 10]”, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald...
  2. (obsolete) A sharp blow.
    • 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.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

Forms of siserary

pluralsiseraries
alternative formsassarara
alternative formsiserara
alternative formsussarara

Origin of siserary

Corrupted from certiorari (“legal writ transferring a cause to a higher court”).

Questions about siserary

What does siserary mean?
Siserary means a severe rebuke or scolding.
What part of speech is siserary?
Siserary is a noun.
What is the plural of siserary?
The plural of siserary is siseraries.

Words near siserary in the dictionary

  1. Sisemore
  2. Sisemores
  3. siserara
  4. siseraras
  5. siseraries
  6. siserary
  7. siserskite
  8. sises
  9. sisexual bex
  10. Sisha
  11. Sishui

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