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CARDS AND CARDPLAYING — Cardplaying was not known in the ancient world. There is reason to believe that card games were first introduced into Europe from Arabia about 1379. The impropriety of card games in Jewish law was derived only by inference from talmudic dicta on… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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bombastic — bombastically, adv. /bom bas tik/, adj. (of speech, writing, etc.) high sounding; high flown; inflated; pretentious. Also, bombastical. [1695 1705; BOMBAST + IC] Syn. pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid, grandiose. BOMBASTIC, FLOWERY,… … Universalium
Ames, William — ▪ English theologian born 1576, Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng. died Nov. 14, 1633, Rotterdam English Puritan theologian remembered for his writings on ethics and for debating and writing in favour of strict Calvinism in opposition to Arminianism.… … Universalium
card|play|ing — «KAHRD PLAY ihng», noun. the activity of playing a game of cards: »His cardplaying is now limited to occasional bouts of solitaire (New Yorker) … Useful english dictionary
pro|scrib´er — pro|scribe «proh SKRYB», transitive verb, scribed, scrib|ing. 1. to prohibit as wrong or dangerous; talk against; condemn: »In earlier days, the church proscribed dancing and cardplaying. It is difficult to proscribe a party without infringing on … Useful english dictionary
pro|scribe — «proh SKRYB», transitive verb, scribed, scrib|ing. 1. to prohibit as wrong or dangerous; talk against; condemn: »In earlier days, the church proscribed dancing and cardplaying. It is difficult to proscribe a party without infringing on the right… … Useful english dictionary
re|neg´er — re|nege «rih NIHG, NEEG», verb, neged, neg|ing, noun. –v.i. 1. to fail to play a card of the same suit as that first played, although one is able to do so; revoke. It is against the rules of cards to renege. 2. Informal. to back out; fail to… … Useful english dictionary
re|nege — «rih NIHG, NEEG», verb, neged, neg|ing, noun. –v.i. 1. to fail to play a card of the same suit as that first played, although one is able to do so; revoke. It is against the rules of cards to renege. 2. Informal. to back out; fail to follow up:… … Useful english dictionary
