lusorious

comparative more lusorious · superlative most lusorious

1. Pertaining to a sport, game or pastime.

   Many too nicely take exceptions at cards, tables, and dice, and such mixed lusorious lots […]

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4

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   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.

   1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13

   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.'

   1999, Geoffrey Wilson Clark, Betting on Lives, page 35