2. Noun. (obsolete) A sharp blow ¹
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Definition of Siserary
1. a scolding [n SISERARIES] - See also: scolding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Siserary
Literary usage of Siserary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"(sv siserary), where the word is said to be in prov. use in the sense of a ...
in Devon the phr. with a siserary means ' with a vengeance' [' I fell in love ..."
2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1900)
"... whereby my husband was last Tuesday served with a siserary, being that he was
bound for an officer that ran away: and I said to my husband, Timothy, ..."
3. Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier, a Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one by Walter Scott (1887)
"... and attacked it with such a siserary of Latin as might have scared the devil
himself, and thereby plainly discovered that it was no devil at all, ..."
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