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▪ I. gaming, vbl. n.|ˈgeɪmɪŋ|
Also 6 gam(e)ning.
[f. game v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or habit of playing at games of chance for stakes; gambling.
αc1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) E iv, An olde man can play, and keepe his grauitie Of death the remembrance his gamning ought to be. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 51 To him that compared gamning with shoting wyll I answere. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 14 b, To abuse the Sonday, in gamenyng, drinkyng, dauncyng, and worldly businesse.
β1501Bury Wills (Camden) 90 Suche mony as I haue wanne or loste in gamyng. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xviii. 21 The master of a gaming by whose assurance and leading he is brought foorth to thencounter. a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 327 Wee may not liue idlely, and giue our selues to riot and gaming. 1668Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 35, I saw deep and prodigious gaming at the Groom-Porter's. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) II. 113 He loved gaming the most of any man of business I ever knew. a1797Burke Fragm. Tract Popery Laws Wks. IX. 364 Such deep gaming for stakes so valuable ought not to be admitted. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocracy Wks. (Bohn) II. 86 Gaming, racing, drinking, and mistresses bring them down.
†2. Gr. and Rom. Antiq. The celebration of games; an athletic or musical contest. Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay i. 10 Greate Personages, whose Images..were turned into Idolles, their woorthie doings into yearely Gamings. 1600Holland Livy xlv. xxxii. (1609) 1223 At the great and solemne gamings [L. magnis ludis] in Greece. 1606― Sueton. 188 Those Cities and states where solemne gamings of musicke are usually held.
3. attrib. and Comb., as gaming board, gaming-humour, gaming-ordinary, gaming-place; gaming-proof a., proof against temptations to gaming. Also gaming-house, -table.
1932Discovery Nov. 341/2 A magnificent *gaming board is unique among Irish examples of Norse culture. 1938Burlington Mag. July 40/1 Inlaid gaming boards.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet C iv a, You would make the Church like Primero, four religions in it, and nere one like another. I cannot out of his *gaming humour. c1600Distracted Emp. i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 166 Thy gameing humor hath been like a fyer.
1712Swift Let. Eng. Tongue Wks. 1755 II. i. 189 All the odd words they have picked up in a coffee-house, or a *gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.
1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 254 That..a censor be appointed..to go now and then to the billiard-tables, and to the other *gaming-places.
1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI 122 Half a dozen officers all *gaming-proof, with empty purses.
Add:[1.] b. The playing of war-games or role-playing games.
1982White Dwarf Dec. 27/2 Pirates and Plunder presents a unique fusion of three styles of gaming. 1989GM Nov. 18/1 CoC is a classic RPG..casting its shadow over the whole gaming industry.
▪ II. ˈgaming, ppl. a.
[f. game v. + -ing2.]
That games; † sportive, jocular.
1552Huloet, Gaminge or full of game, iocosus. 1617R. Clayton in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1887) II. 112 Gibson the gamming mynistir delivered mee this letter. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Ser. & Com. 104 If he had seen any of our Gaming Ladies there. |