or sarsara, siserara, sasarara, &c., subs. (old).—1. A writ of removal from a lower to a higher Court. Hence (2) = a blow, a scolding, an outburst; WITH A SARSARA = with a vengeance, suddenly.
1607. TOURNEUR, The Revenger’s Tragedy [DODSLEY, Old Plays (REED), iv. 379]. Pray … that their sinnes may be remou’d with a writ of Error, and their soules fetcht up to heauen with a SASARARA.
1607. W. S., The Puritaine, iii. 3. If it be lost or stole … a cunning kinsman of mine … would fetch it again with a SESARARA.
1758. STERNE, Tristram Shandy, vi. 47. I fell in love all at once with a SISSERARA.
1766. GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield, xxi. Gentle or simple, out she shall pack with a SUSSARARA.
1771. SMOLLETT, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, i. 80. I have gi’en the dirty slut a SISERARY.
1826. SCOTT, Woodstock, I. x. [He] attacked it with such a SISERARY of Latin as might have scared the devil himself.
