Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A certiorari, a legal writ by which a proceeding is removed to a higher court.
- noun Hence Any effective, telling action; especially, a stroke; a blow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A severe
rebuke orscolding - noun obsolete A sharp
blow
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Examples
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The price may look steep, but it might turn out to be one of the last great printed reference works...: all the more reason to buy it swith, mididone, with a siserary, and in quick sticks.
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers Omnivoracious 2009
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The price may look steep, but it might turn out to be one of the last great printed reference works...: all the more reason to buy it swith, mididone, with a siserary, and in quick sticks.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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And besides, for all that, you know, and God knows, as we are dustrious people, and work hard for what we get, and we have served gentlemen to our own harm, whereby my husband was last Tuesday served with a siserary, being that he was bound for an officer that ran away.
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Tuesday served with a siserary, being that he was bound for an officer that ran away.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias George Smollett 1746
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Tuesday served with a siserary, being that he was bound for an officer that ran away.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02 Tobias George Smollett 1746
hernesheir commented on the word siserary
Also sussarara.
September 17, 2011