† ˈferular Obs.
Also 7 ferrular, feriler, -uler.
[ad. L. ferulār-is of or belonging to the giant fennel.]
= ferula 2.
| 1594 O. B. Quest. Profitable Concernings K iv a, A Feruler to admonish them with. 1600 Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 364 The wicked are the worse when they are under the ferular. 1644 Milton Areop. 20 What advantage is it to be a man..if we have only scapt the ferular, to come under the fescu of an Imprimatur? 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 312/1 The Ferrular is an Instrument used by School-Masters to correct their Scholars. 1706 in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1775 in Ash. |