siserary
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Corrupted from certiorari (“legal writ transferring a cause to a higher court”).
Noun
[edit]siserary (plural siseraries)
- (obsolete) A severe rebuke or scolding.
- 1826, [Walter Scott], “[HTTPS://ARCHIVE.ORG/DETAILS/WOODSTOCKORCAVAL01SCOT CHAPTER 10]”, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 252:
- […] 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 […]
- (obsolete) A sharp blow.
- 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,[1]
- 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,[1]