siserary means A severe rebuke or scolding. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
Corrupted from certiorari (“legal writ transferring a cause to a higher court”).
noun
- 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 […]”
- 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,
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.”