† scleragogistn.
Obsolete. rare.
One who practises ‘scleragogy’, a rigorous ascetic.
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scleragogista1641
ascetic1660
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 403 Ascetæ and Scleragogists they were in most..rigid manner.
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- to buzz off
- to bêche-de-mer
- to bêchedemer
- to ca' canny
- to cairn prop
- to cajole with
- to cake off
- to calculate one's way by the log
- to call a couple home
- to call a mattock a mattock
- to call a person foul
- to call a person home
- to call a person names
- to call a person out of his or her name
- to call a person pisher
- to call a person to his or her feet
- to call a person to his or her legs
- to call a person to stress
- to call a person to the colours
- to call a person unto the law
- to call a person's name
- to call a person's name something specified
- to call a pikestaff a pikestaff
- to call a spade a bloody shovel