sellary

plural sellaries

1. obsoleteA male prostitute.

   Others Are rauish’d hence…and…dealt away Vnto his Spintries, Sellaries, and Slaues.

   1603, Benjamin Jonson, Sejanus, act IV, scene v

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   tuncque primum ignota antea vocabula reperta sunt sellariorum et spintriarum ex foeditate loci

   1598, Richard Greenway, transl., Annals, translation of Ab excessu Divi Augusti historiarum libri by P. Cornelius Tacitus, published 1622, book VI, section i, page 121

plural sellaries

1. obsoleterareA public gathering place with benches or stools for sitting on.

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   Seppe anche da altri banditi à forza di tormenti, che per opra di Mataloni, e del fratello con tenerui anche mano il Perrone, il Graſſo, & altri Capi di banditi, che già s’erano auuelenate l’acque del ſotterraneo Formale di Napoli con metterui de i veleni, e del frumento, e fatte le debite diligenze trouosſi eſſer’il vero, particolarmente in quelle bocche che riceuono l’acqua piouana, come nella [v.l. nelle] Sellarie, nel Mercato, & in altre parti habitate dal più infimo popolo, intendendo due caſi auuenuti di morte in perſona di due poueri figliuoli: onde aperti, e rotti i condotti in tutti quei luoghi, doue poteua ageuolmente farſi, fè paſſar parola per tutta la Città à ſuon di tromba da diuerſi trombetti, con affigger anche per ogni cantone l’auuiſo à non beuerſi da niuno di quell’acque, che entrauano dal Formale.

   1650, James Howell, transl., An Exact Hiſtory of the late Revolutions in Naples; and of their Monſtrous Succeſſes, not to be parallel’d by any Antient or Modern Hiſtory., London: R. Lowndes at the White Lion in St. Pauls Church yard., translation of Le Riuolutioni di Napoli by Alessandro Giraffi, published 1664, “Wedneſday, July 10. 1647. The fourth Day.”, page 68

1. obsoleteObsolete 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.

   1516 May 24th, Lyon Percehay, “The will of Lyon Percehay, Esq., of Ryton. [Reg. Test. ix. 71.]”, in will № i, in John William Clay, editor, Testamenta Eboracensia. A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York. (The Publications of the Surtees Society; CVI), volume VI, Durham/Paternoster Square/Piccadilly/Edinburgh: Andrews & Co./Whittaker & Co./Bernard Quaritch/Blackwood & Sons, published 1902, page 2

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   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.

   1817, Memoirs of the life and writings of George Buchanan, page 371

1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of celery.

   Sellary eat in Sallad warms the Stomach; boil'd in Gruel, it helps a short Breath

   1690, An English Herbal, page 56

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   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.

   1727 July 1st, Jonathan Swift, “Letter XVIII: from Dr. Swift to Dr. Sheridan”, in Miſcellanies, volume 10, published 1745, pages 110–111