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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
philosopher's game en · NOUN
Meanings
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(historical) A game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.
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 […]
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:
Synonyms
rithmomachy · ryghtmathy