† sicern.
Obsolete.
Intoxicating liquor, strong drink.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12679 He dranc neuer cisar ne wine.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10982 Mekil for right þan sal he suynk, And nouþer wyne ne seser [Vesp. ciser] drink.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 116 Teres of synners certein whilk ere contrite trewely Ere wyne and Cisere to seintis.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Baptist 67 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 225 Wyne & cesare he ne sal drinke.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke i. 15 Wine and sicer he shal not drincke.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xiv. 26 Thou shalt buy..wine also and sicere.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. To Rdr. p. xxx No man hauing but the English tongue onely is able to vnderstand it. Witnesse their Parasceue of the Pasche, their Azimes, their Wine and Sicer.]
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