sentery
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sentery (plural senteries)
- Obsolete form of sentry.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book XLI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 413:
- […] what evasion bear him safe / Through the strict senteries and stations thick / Of angels […]
References
[edit]- “sentery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.