seraglio (seralyo)

[Formerly also serail, sarrail, an inclosure, seraglio, a bolt, F. sérail, a seraglio, = Sp. serrallo = Pg. serralho, a seraglio; I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a suburb by themselves. I pa ed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins, for being inviron'd with walls, they are lock'd up every night. Evelyn , Diary, Jan. 15, 1645. 2. A walled palace; specifically, the chief or official palace of the Sultan of Turkey at Constantinople. It is of great size, and contains government buildings, mosques, etc., as well as the sultan's harem. On the 1st hill [of Stamboul], the most easterly, are situated the remains of the Seraglio , former palace of the sultans. Encyc. Brit., VI. 304. 5505 The whole number of lodgers in and about the serai probably did not fall short of 500 persons. What an ad mirable scene for eastern romance would such an inn as this afford! Bp. Heber , Journey through India (ed. 1829), III. 70. The Kumharsen Serai is the great four-square sink of humanity where the strings of camels and horses from the North load and unload. Rudyard Kipling , The Man who would be King. 2. A seraglio, or place of seclusion for women. Not thus was Ha an wont to fly When Leila dwelt in his Serai . IMG:content-0645.png:[blocks in formation] Serapias of red enamel between the arms. Every arm of the cro is charged with a patriarchal cro in gold, and the center is a medallion of blue enamel, bearing the implements of the Pa ion, the letters L. H. S., and three crowns. The collar consists of alternate winged angelic heads of gold and patriarchal cro es in red enamel. seraphic (se-raf'ik), a. and n. [F. séraphique = Sp. seráfico = Pg. seraphico = It. serafico, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close rece and secret conclave sat. Milton, P. L., i. 794. Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxx. 2. Worthy of a seraph; superhuman; pure; refined from gro ne . Lloyd tells me that, three or 400 yeares ago, Chymistrey was in a greater perfection much than now. The proces was then more seraph i que and univ ers all. Now they looke Whether he at last descends Seral (sē'ral), n. [L. ser us, late, + -al .] In geol ., according to the nomenclature proposed only after medicines. Aubrey , Lives, Saint Dunstan. by H. D. Rogers for the Paleozoic series in Pennsylvania, same as the Pottsville Conglomer- ate or Millstone - grit ; No. XII. of the numerical designation of these rocks by the Pennsylvania Survey.