philosopher's game
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English
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Noun
[edit]- (historical) A game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
- The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]
Synonyms
[edit]- rithmomachy
- ryghtmathy (obsolete, rare)