lusorious
English
Adjective
lusorious (comparative more lusorious, superlative most lusorious)
- Pertaining to a sport, game or pastime.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.2.4:
- Many too nicely take exceptions at cards, tables, and dice, and such mixed lusorious lots […]
- 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13:
- Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.
- 1999, Geoffrey Wilson Clark, Betting on Lives, page 35:
- But Gataker stipulated that in order for such recreation to be lawful, each possible outcome of a lusorious lot must be morally indifferent, and he platitudinously added that games of chance 'are to be used soberly, seasonably, ingenuously, inoffensively, prudently, and religiously.'
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