sellary

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Definition of sellary

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A male prostitute.
    “tuncque primum ignota antea vocabula reperta sunt sellariorum et spintriarum ex foeditate loci”
    “Others Are rauish’d hence…and…dealt away Vnto his Spintries, Sellaries, and Slaues.”
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noun

  1. (obsolete)A male prostitute.
    “tuncque primum ignota antea vocabula reperta sunt sellariorum et spintriarum ex foeditate loci”
    “Others Are rauish’d hence…and…dealt away Vnto his Spintries, Sellaries, and Slaues.”
  2. (obsolete, rare)A public gathering place with benches or stools for sitting on.
  3. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of salary.
    “And further I will that a descritt and an honeste preste have sellary to syng for my soull, my wyff and myn ancesters, by the space of iij yeres.”
    “The sellary of the rector, thesaurer, and censor, to be payed off the casualities of the universitie, as it that comes of the entries of the students in the rectors book, and of the degrees.”
  4. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete spelling of celery.
    “Sellary eat in Sallad warms the Stomach; boil'd in Gruel, it helps a short Breath”
    “Pray aſk Mr. Synge whether his Fenocchio be grown; it is now fit to eat here, and we eat it like Sellary, either with or without Oil, &c.”

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sellārius.

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