What does siserary mean?
Siserary means (obsolete) A severe rebuke or scolding..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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 […]
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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Siserary means (obsolete) A severe rebuke or scolding..
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[…] 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 […]
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