lusorious

English

Etymology

From Latin lūsōrius, from lūsor (“player”).

Adjective

lusorious (comparative more lusorious, superlative most lusorious)

1. 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.'