Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

Etymologies

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Latin scalaris, from scale, plural scala, staircase, ladder.

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Examples

  • For that cowlish deliverance, their scalary losings, their papal spoliations, and other such their figments, they cannot find.

    Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

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  • Not many examples of this word.

    May 6, 2010

  • It is off the scale.

    May 6, 2010