siserary

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A severe rebuke or scolding. obsolete
    — […] 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 […]
  2. A sharp blow. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

siseraries plural sassarara alternative siserara alternative sussarara alternative

词源

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