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单词 lottery
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lotteryn.

Brit. /ˈlɒt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈlɑdəri/
Forms: 1500s lottarye, 1500s lotterye, 1500s lottre, 1500s–1600s lotarie, 1500s–1600s lotery, 1500s–1600s lottarie, 1500s–1600s lottary, 1500s–1600s lotterie, 1500s– lottery, 1600s loterie, 1600s lottire, 1600s lottory (Scottish), 1600s lottrie, 1600s lott'ry, 1600s lottry.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps originally modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps originally modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: lot v., -ery suffix.
Etymology: < lot v. + -ery suffix, originally after either Middle French, French loterie (1538) or Dutch loterij (Middle Dutch loterye: see note). Compare post-classical Latin loteria (a1513, earliest in a source with both French and Dutch connections), also lotaria (a1578 in a Dutch source). Compare also (apparently < Dutch) early modern German (Cologne) lotterei (1550; German Lotterie (1570)), and further (via French) Spanish lotería (first half of the 17th cent.), Italian lotteria (a1640), etc.Lotteries were first held in the bilingual environment of Flanders from c1444. Although the French word is first attested later than the Dutch, it is likely that Middle Dutch loterye (1446) is a borrowing < Middle French loterie , which was in turn probably modelled on Middle Dutch lotinge (1445 in this sense), specific use of lotinge action of drawing lots (see lotting n.). It is also possible that loterye was formed within Middle Dutch ( < loten lot v. + -erie -ery suffix), but it is notable that other senses such as ‘action of drawing lots’ (compare sense 2 of the English word), which would be expected in this case, are absent.
1.
a. A competition based on chance, in which numbered tickets are sold and prizes are given to the holders of numbers drawn at random; esp. such a competition as a means of raising money for the state or a charity. Also occasionally as a mass noun: the action of playing in or running a lottery. †lottery general: a public or state lottery.The first state lottery in Britain took place in 1569 (advertisements for public subscriptions having been published two years earlier); prizes (in the form of money and valuable items) were predetermined, and every ticket holder received a prize. Modern lotteries vary widely in form, but usually there is only one winner or a small number of winners per draw, and the prize money is typically a proportion of the money raised from ticket sales.Bans on state lotteries were imposed in Britain and in most U.S. states during the 19th cent., but were lifted again in the 20th (1964 in New Hampshire in the United States, 1994 in the United Kingdom).million lottery, national lottery, scratch lottery, state lottery, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun]
lottery1567
rifling1569
raffle1734
lotto1787
draw1839
roulette1861
swindle1868
shake1877
shackle1881
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > type of
Ragmana1393
lottery general1567
standing lottery1613
malt lottery1697
little go1795
great go1809
tombola1835
Tattersall1895
golden goal1968
1567 Proclam. Very Rich Lotterie Generall A very rich Lotterie generall, without any Blanckes, contayning a great number of good Prices, aswel of redy Money as of Plate,..the same Lotterie is erected by Her Maiesties order, to the intent that suche commoditie as may chaunce to arise thereof,..may be conuerted towards the reparation of the Hauens, and strength of the Realme.
1568 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 132 The proclamasyon for the Lottre.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike ii. xvii. f. 116 Every rule were written in a severall schrole, every schrole being put into an earthen pitcher as they use in lottaries.
1607 E. Howes Stow's Chron. (new ed.) 434 A Lotterie for merueilous rich and bewtifull armour, was begunne to be drawne at London.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 283 He comes not to the Sacrament, as to a Lottery, where perchance he may draw Salvation.
1668 London Gaz. No. 261/4 (advt.) Mr. Ogilby's Lottery of Books opens on Monday the 25th instant.
1732 H. Fielding Lottery ii. 28 I had no Fortune, but what I promis'd my self from the Lottery.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. i. 7 If it must be paid by parliament, let me advise the Chancellor of the Exchequer to think of some better expedient than a lottery.
1795 Times 12 Feb. 1/2 (advt.) The present Lottery contains only 40,000 tickets, and there is the same sum..to be divided among the prize-holders.
1805 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 6 358 Mr. Alderman Combe presented a petition from several persons, owners..of houses,..praying leave to dispose of the same by way of lottery.
1827 Lancet 6 Jan. 453/2 Indeed, now that lotteries have ceased, Dr. Macleod appears to be the Bish of the advertising world.
1842 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. ix. 153 My mother's fortune was large, my father's good, legacies from both sides, a twenty thousand prize in the lottery—all have vanished.
1858 B. Mitchell Diary 1 June in Blanche (2009) 80 I put into a shilling lottery and got a scent spray, and a mask.
1917 T. J. Bailey Prohibition in Mississippi 82 As the consumption of liquor decreased, such practices as gambling, lottery,..and killing decreased.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse xix. 239 The Governor of Livorno, in order to repair the defences of the city, announced by proclamation the establishment of an official lottery with several very large prizes.
1976 Q. Rev. Biol. 51 517/1 Sir Ashton Lever launched a lottery to dispose of his Leicester Square museum.
2012 Private Eye 15 June 27/2 Lionel..scoops £140m on the lottery and embarks upon a life of Herculean..excess.
b. Dependence on chance, as opposed to skill. Frequently in game of lottery. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness
catch as catch cana1393
die1548
hazard1548
random1565
haphazard1569
chance-medley1583
lay1584
lottery1593
haphazarding1787
randomness1803
haphazardness1857
happy-go-luckiness1866
chanciness1870
flukiness1888
haphazardry1910
randomicity1936
1593 J. Balmford Short & Plaine Dialogue conc. Vnlawfulnes Cards sig. Aiii.v Yet Lotterie is vsed by casting Dice, and by shufling and cutting, before the wit is exercised.
1619 T. Gataker Of Nature & Use Lots vii. 179 The end and scope of play is thereby to exercise either the ability of the body or the industrie of the minde. But in games of Loterie is neither of these exercised: not the minde; because there is no vse of Arte or skill, but all is put to hazard: Not the body; for men sit at them without stirring ought saue fingers and hands onely.
1703 C. Mather Diary 12 Apr. (1911) I. 202 Understanding that many, especially of our young People gave themselves a Liberty, to do Things not of good Report, especially, in using the scandalous Games of Lottery.
a1732 T. Boston Illustr. Doctr. Christian Relig. (1773) II. 539 For which reason playing at cards, dice, and all games of lottery, are unlawful.
1751 A. McDouall Inst. Laws Scotl. I. i. x. 295 By the civil law, restitution was given to any person that lost money at dice, or games of lottery.
1889 Presbyterian Q. Jan. 75 The specious argument that there is lottery in every transaction of life misleads many.
1934 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 30 July 3/6 The Legislature shall not authorize any games of chance, lottery or gift enterprise.
2. The action or an act of drawing or casting lots as a means of decision-making or (in early use) divination. Now chiefly (as an extended use of sense 1a): a method of allocation based on the random selection of names or numbers.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun]
i-wonc1275
casec1300
adventurec1325
hap1340
accidencea1393
casualty1423
chefe1440
fortunityc1470
enchance?a1475
accidentc1485
chance1526
contingencec1530
lottery1570
casuality1574
chanceableness1581
contingency1623
fortuitiona1641
fortuitness1643
accidentalness1648
accidentality1651
fortuitousness1652
causelessnessa1660
temerity1678
fortuitya1747
spontaneity1751
felicity1809
accidentiality1814
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > casting of lots, sortilege > [noun]
cavellingc1375
sortc1386
sortilegea1387
sortilegya1387
lot-casting1569
lottery1570
cleromancy1610
sortiary1653
draught1807
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iiv/2 A Lottery, sortilicium.
1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles ix. 71 There is two kindes of lotteries or casting of lottes [L. sortilegij]: the one lawfull, the other vnlawfull. That is vnlawfull, when they go about after the curiositie of mans brayne..to search out secrets, and what is to come, the knowledge whereof belongeth not vnto vs.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xi. x. 197 The cousening art of sortilege or lotarie.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 129 Who shall answer him. Achil. I know not, tis put to lottry . View more context for this quotation
1619 T. Gataker Of Nature & Use Lots i. 6 Lotery..is the deciding or determination of a doubt by some casuall euent.
1709 J. Edwards Preacher: Third Pt. 197 Lottery or casting of Lots is threefold. 1. Divine, and by God's command..2. Diabolical, i.e. such as the Gentiles used in a Magical way..3. Civil or Politick, made use of in choosing of Officers.
1779 Fanatical Conversion 43 On dipping into the Bible, by Way of Lottery, as mentioned before.
1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iv. iv. 298 Blow-point..[was] probably blowing an arrow through a trunk, at certain numbers by way of lottery.
1851 E. D. Joyce How Half Million should be Invested 36 The selection of the emigrants might either be made by lottery, by rotation, or any other plan mutually agreed upon by the members of such associations.
1921 V. Murdock Folks 84 Subsequent settlements mostly were conducted by means of lottery, a drawing of numbers in which there was nothing more dramatic than the fickle element of chance.
1970 Science 27 Feb. 1201/2 The arts and sciences college of the University of Illinois used a lottery to choose its quota of 3350 new students from among 4200 well-qualified applicants.
2009 Daily Tel. 26 Feb. 25/2 Up to 150,000 of this year's school places could be allocated by lottery.
3. figurative.
a. A situation or enterprise regarded as governed by chance; spec. one regarded as having little chance of success.See also postcode lottery at postcode n. Compounds.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness > a matter of mere chance
lottery1585
haphazard1594
lucky bag1788
Russian roulette1937
1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iii. 458 To make him weaker the holy lande was euer vrged by the Pope as a perpetuall Lottarie, to make him, and other Christian Princes spende their people and wealth with so small successe, and mightie losse.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. E3 Backe I must returne and beare halfe stakes with him in the lotterie of trauell.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 28 The lottrie that he hath deuised in these three chests of gold, siluer, and leade. View more context for this quotation
1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Ff6 And for thou liuest publiquely in Court,..Being a lottery where but few do winne.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxii. 213 Marriage shall prove no lottery to thee, when the hand of providence chuseth for thee, who, if drawing a blank, can turn it into a prize by sanctifying a bad wife unto thee.
1687 T. Bucknell Let. 7 Feb. in R. Law Eng. in W. Afr.: Local Corr. Royal Afr. Co. (2001) II. 41 My trade is such a lottery I know not what to advise for.
1725 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire III 14 A beauteous sister, or convenient wife, Are prizes in the lottery of life.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 31 Knowledge and improvements are to be got by sailing and posting for that purpose; but whether useful knowledge and real improvements, is all a lottery.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 159 If I have not been lucky in the lottery of life.
1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 5 Many poor men make fortunes..by the lottery of gold-finding.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 38 Such desires make life a hideous lottery, where every day may turn up a blank.
1902 Daily Chron. 5 July 5/2 Plum-culture is a lottery: for plums either fruit too lightly or they break the tree and glut the market.
1988 J. Hamilton Idle Hill of Summer (1989) ix. 115 It was all such a frightful lottery, war: tantalizing, impossible to imagine, exciting, terrifying.
2011 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 30 Sept. 22/1 There were many sitouts and it was a bit of a lottery as to whether the bowlers got wet or not.
†b. The occurrence of events without obvious design; chance, happenstance. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > chance or fortuitous circumstance
hazard1340
accidencea1393
a venture's strokec1450
chance1487
contingent1548
circumstance1599
lotterya1616
accidency1645
by-accident1648
frisk1665
accidentala1834
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 118 So let high-sighted-Tyranny range on, Till each man drop by Lottery . View more context for this quotation
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune iv. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxxxx/1 Fainting under Fortunes false Lottery.
1663 L. Womock Aron-bimnucha or Antidote to cure Calamites 4 Such was the Lotery that discovered the Theft and Sacriledge committed at Jericho.
†c. Something of value which a person receives by chance or fortune. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > prize
lot1567
prize1567
welcome1567
lotterya1616
benefit1694
tern1856
rollover1981
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 249 If Beauty, Wisedome, Modesty, can settle The heart of Anthony: Octauia is A blessed Lottery to him. View more context for this quotation
4. A gambling game played with two decks of cards, in which cards from one deck (representing tickets) are dealt to players, and cards from the other deck (representing prizes) are dealt face down and assigned amounts of money which may be won by players with corresponding cards. Cf. lottery ticket n. (b) at Compounds 2, lot n. 4b. Now rare.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > lottery
lottery1754
lottery ticket1813
1754 C. Johnson in R. Seymour Compleat Gamester (ed. 8) ii. Pref. p.v The Lottery is a Game but lately invented, tho' already in high Esteem among Gentlemen and Ladies of the politest Fashion.
1768 tr. Abbé Bellecour Acad. Play 187 Of all the Games on the Cards, Lottery is without doubt, the most amusing, and the Game of the greatest commerce.
1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 86 Each player..stakes a certain number of counters..which are placed in a box or pool as a fund for the lottery.
1876 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Card Player's Man. 233 Lottery is one of the most amusing and lively games for a large party—especially when played for small stakes.
1921 H. A. Franck Working North from Patagonia vi. 137 We..gathered about the table with the pulpero's family to play ‘lottery’, a two-cent gambling card-game, until long after midnight.
1949 J. Leeming Games with Playing Cards 144 Lottery is an old favorite with many and is played by any number of people from five on up to ten or twelve, if that many can get around the table.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive and objective (with agent and verbal nouns).Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1569 in W. Fering Christal Glas (single sheet) Imprinted at London in Fleetstreete, by William How, for Richarde Iohnes: and are to be solde at his shop vnder the Lotterie house.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. 474 All their names were throwne into a lotterie pitcher [L. urnam].
1719 J. Buxton Let. 27 Oct. (2005) 34 I have examined the lottery papers and do not find any of my tickets yet drawn, either blanks or prizes.
1775 Misc. in Ann. Reg. 190/1 My whole house had..been infected with the lottery mania,—(if I may be allowed the expression).
1797 F. Higgins Let. 19 May in T. Bartlett Revolutionary Dublin (2004) 160 The associations for Lottery clubs, Funeral Society's and other body's of working people.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. ii. 138 The evils produced by the precious metals, such as avarice, covetuousness, theft, rapine, usury, banking, note-shaving, lottery-insuring, and the whole catalogue of crimes and grievances were then unknown.
1855 Harper's Mag. June 45/1 I heard of disappointed lottery speculators hewing them, like Agag, in pieces.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 7/1 They promise great gains for little pains—a fortune for a dollar invested in a lottery scheme.
1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. 237 A number of Lottery Loans of the worst class have been started in some of the German States.
1897 Cosmopolitan Feb. 411/2 The legality of lottery playing in Germany.
1923 Daily Mail 19 Feb. 8 Throngs gather round the cheap lottery booths.
1969 D. R. Cressey Theft of Nation v. 75 There are distinct advantages in ‘sharecropping’ a bookmaking or lottery business.
1991 D. Coupland Generation X ii. xxii. 124 She was never really sure whether people..were responding merely to the lottery prize she won at birth.
2011 Wired Feb. 110/2 One important strategy involves the use of what lottery designers call extended play.
b. attributive, designating a tradesman or business offering a lottery ticket as part of each purchase, as lottery barber, lottery eating-house, lottery tailor, etc. Now rare (historical after 18th cent.).
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1777 Scots Mag. Oct. 527/2 The ingenious set of Lottery Merchants, viz. Lottery Magazine Proprietors, Lottery Taylors, Lottery Staymakers..Lottery Barbers, where a man, for being shaved, and paying three pence, may stand a chance of getting ten pounds.
1865 F. Martin Stories Banks & Bankers xiv. 146 In 1772, there were lottery tailors, lottery hatters,..lottery eating-houses—where a fellow had a chance of getting a meal and fifty pounds for sixpence—lottery oyster stalls,..and a hundred similar institutions.
1907 Pearson's Mag. Sept. 326/2 There came into being..lottery tea-merchants, lottery tobacco shops, lottery bakers, lottery barbers, and for that matter lottery shoe-blacks, in whose shops, when you paid three pence for a ‘shine’, you ran a pleasant risk of drawing ten pounds as a prize.
c. attributive, designating or relating to money raised by a lottery, now esp. a state lottery, and used for charitable or public purposes, as lottery bid, lottery fund, lottery grant, etc.; see also lottery money n. at Compounds 1d, lottery funding n. at Compounds 2.
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1694 W. Gallaway Refl. Mr. Johnson's Notes on Pastoral Let. 40 Almost a Million Voluntarily Advanc'd in two Months on a Lottery Fund.
1715 J. Asgill Abstr. Publick Funds 12 20 Millions on the Perpetual Funds will be discharg'd near about the time of the Expiration of the last Lottery-Funds.
1834 Hazard's Reg. Pennsylvania 16 Aug. 111/1 The revised Constitution disables the legislature from ever making a lottery grant.
1890 Weekly Breeze (Monroeville, Indiana) 25 Dec. When Brazil gets older there may be some hope it will not only cut off churches but schools from lottery revenues.
1932 Times 12 Apr. 13/5 Lottery funds were used for the upkeep of the hospitals.
1958 Financial Times 24 Oct. 8/3 The Commissariat-Général was almost wholly financed by lottery proceeds and a Government lottery bond issue.
1989 D. Morrow & M. Keyes Conc. Hist. Sport in Canada 244 In 1980 a ‘women's program’ was established, funded by lottery revenues.
1993 Times 9 Nov. 31/2 It looks as if the same old crowd that has so comprehensively fouled up current arts policy will also be entrusted with lottery handouts.
1997 Media Week 16 May 3/4 The Department of National Heritage announced one legislative proposal on Wednesday; to introduce a bill redirecting lottery grants.
2014 Chester Chron. (Nexis) 20 Nov. 3 TV viewers are urged to vote for a £50,000 lottery bid for a community café to tackle loneliness and isolation.
d.
lottery book n.
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1621 Court Proc. 19 Dec. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1906) I. 572 Mr Edwards and mr Ditchfeild..are desired likewise to entreat of him the Lottery bookes to the end that they may be examined by the Auditors.
1783 Bp. Percy Let. in J. G. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. (1858) VIII. 225 Could you procure access to the Commissioners' own Lottery Books, and thence inform me of the fate of No. 24,380.
2007 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 17 Jan. 2 b Police searched the warehouse and found gambling slips, a lottery book and list of players.
lottery broker n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > organizers
King Ragmanc1450
lottery man1664
lottery cavalier1682
raffler1707
ticket-jobber1737
lottery broker1754
1754 W. Guthrie Friends II. 68 The Note was made payable to one of the most eminent Lottery-Brokers about Town.
1807 Salmagundi 1 Oct. 315 Doubtful characters, particularly pimps, bailiffs, lottery-brokers, chevaliers of industry, and great men.
1954 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 20 352 The more important lottery brokers had branch offices in several cities.
2007 Internat. Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 28 Dec. 11 The new regulations have drawn criticism from Internet betting companies and lottery brokers.
lottery money n.
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1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France ii. 369 The principal Lottery-Money they had lent, was taken and confiscated to the King.
1805 T. B. Chandler Life Samuel Johnson 104 Besides the sums raised by subscription, and the dividend of the lottery money, the college had at this time received a benefaction of five hundred pounds sterling from the society for the propagation of the gospel.
1902 Parl. Deb. Austral. 1901–2 3 4067/1 We would be convinced that lottery money was used very largely to elect governors and legislatures with a view to control legislation.
2010 Guardian 11 Aug. (Society section) 3/1 These [news] hubs would be sited in community centres, schools or the back room of pubs, and be financed by lottery money and local authorities.
lottery number n.
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1787 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXI. 73 The laudable purpose of suppressing the insurance on lottery numbers.
1893 All Year Round 18 Mar. 257/2 It is a good time to petition the saint for anything they may want, from a husband to a lucky lottery number.
2006 In the Know 10 Oct. 16/3 She logged on to the Internet to check her lottery numbers.
lottery subscription n.
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1754 London Mag. Nov. 540/2 If some few of those receipts were sold in 'Change-Alley at a small premium, it was no certain sign that the lottery subscription would fill.
1844 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 700/2 The lottery-subscription lies in limbo.
2013 Waterloo (Calgary) Region Rec. (Nexis) 18 Dec. a7 Crist's prize is also the largest won on a lottery subscription within the Prairie-North lotteries region.
lottery winner n.
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1878 Graphic 28 Dec. 654/3 The fate of these two lottery-winners was bad enough.
1985 Financial Times 10 Aug. (Weekend Suppl.) p. iv/1 There was the lottery winner in the U.S. who, after a $1.1m win, applied for an Amex card only to be rejected.
2000 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. f14/1 The real estate market..has flattened out at a level only lottery winners and bonus babies can afford.
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lottery ball n. †(a) a die thrown in a lottery (obsolete); (b) each of a set of numbered balls drawn in a lottery.
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1696 E. Lhuyd Let. 14 Sept. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 463 I have one [sc. a bead] given me, cut like a Lottery-ball, and perforated.
1898 S. Culin Chess & Playing Cards 906 (caption) String of ninety lottery balls.
1923 Pop. Sci. Aug. 53/3 After the globes have been spun, a boy releases a trap at the bottom, allowing one lottery ball and one prize ball to roll out.
2010 M. F. Testa in M. F. Testa & J. Poertner Fostering Accountability iii. 83 A chance process, such as flipping a coin, drawing a lottery ball, or consulting a table of random numbers.
lottery cavalier n. now rare (historical in later use) (during the reign of Charles II) a poor Royalist officer granted the right to run lotteries.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > organizers
King Ragmanc1450
lottery man1664
lottery cavalier1682
raffler1707
ticket-jobber1737
lottery broker1754
1682 J. Dryden in J. Banks Unhappy Favourite Epil. sig. Lv Not Lott'ry Cavaliers are half so poor.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke (1891) xi. 140 I have heard that some of the lottery cavaliers did well... Well or ill, it was no employment for me.
1901 M. I. Taylor Anne Scarlett xiii. 136 There is no room for a poor gentleman in England unless he would cut as shabby a figure as the late king's lottery cavaliers.
lottery draw n. the random selection of names or numbers to decide the winners in a lottery.
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1866 Amer. Art Jrnl. 20 Sept. 350/3 Three thousand numbers were put in the wheel of chance to represent the immense audience, expected to attend the lottery draw, but no one drew a prize, the shrewd lottery manager having so numbered his cards in the wheel that nothing below 1500 bore a prize mark.
1921 Boston Sunday Globe 16 Jan. 46/6 (heading) People beat state in lottery draw.
2014 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 29 Sept. 24 Congratulations to the winners of our lottery draw on Friday September 19.
† lottery fool n. Obsolete a person who participates in a lottery, regarded as foolish for believing that there is a strong chance of winning.
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1690 J. Crowne Eng. Frier v. 42 The honour of a Dueller is but the honour of a Lottery-fool; he stakes all he has to get a Spoon, and is proclaim'd a Cully by a Trumpet.
1890 D. P. Fry & G. F. Chambers Lunacy Law i. i. i. 9 ‘The world abounds with this kind of fools’ (Lottery fools).
lottery funding n. charitable funding provided by a lottery, esp. for a particular project.
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1973 Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) 20 Feb. 6/3 Original 13 colonies used lottery funding... All 13 of the original colonies raised money through lotteries, according to a newly published report.
1994 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Sept. 6 He rejected fears that lottery funding could be used by the Treasury to scale down revenue grants to arts, heritage and sports, pledging that it would be additional to existing government spending.
2010 Financial Times 9 Dec. 3/1 Lottery funding will provide £50m of the package over the next five years.
lottery jackpot n. the largest prize in a lottery, esp. a large cash prize that accumulates until it is won.
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1951 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 31 Mar. 6/2 Into the scene steps the Inspector Rockwell Stone, determined to bring community back to normality, to put a stop to spiritual subversion—proved by the fact that the town's poorest family has taken the lottery jackpot.
1984 Times 17 July 6/7 A 45-year-old secretary..won $15.6 million (£12m) in the Massachusetts ‘Megabucks’ lottery—the largest single lottery jackpot ever won in the United States.
2007 Daily Tel. 29 Oct. 2/2 Two brothers who attended Harrow School have shared a £9 million lottery jackpot.
† lottery lantern n. Obsolete a lantern bearing transparencies advertising a lottery.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising specific thing > [noun] > lottery
lottery lanterna1777
lottery puff1795
lottery squib1806
a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) i. 19 De lottery-lanthorns hang up in de streets, vid large red letters, write on all sides.
1810 European Mag. Oct. 264/2 They are obliged to create its likeness on a kind of transparency, to be like lottery lanthorns and lottery carts in every street.
lottery man n. a man who sells lottery tickets or works for a lottery company.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > organizers
King Ragmanc1450
lottery man1664
lottery cavalier1682
raffler1707
ticket-jobber1737
lottery broker1754
1664 S. Pepys Diary 18 Oct. (1971) V. 300 His finding fault with Sir J Collidon and Colonel Griffin's report in the accounts of the lottery-men.
1789 J. O'Keeffe Highland Reel i. 18 I desired the lottery man to send me notice, if this chance should be drawn a prize.
1890 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 25 Sept. 23 For cool impudence..it is the art union lottery man with 20,000 tickets to sell at a shilling a piece.
2012 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 24 Feb. 32 The lottery man asked: ‘What is it your wife does?’
lottery office n. a place where lottery tickets are sold and redeemed; frequently attributive, as lottery-office clerk, lottery-office keeper.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > places
raffling shop1691
lottery office1735
1704 J. Chamberlayne Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia (ed. 21) iii. 559 Malt-Lottery Office. Chief Clerk, Mr. John Taylor.]
1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 360 A Clerk to the Lottery-Office.
1748 Winter Evening's Conversat. (Dramatis Personae) Chance, a Lottery-Office-Keeper.
1772 Town & Country Mag. 130 Mr. Jesson, who keeps a lottery-office under the piazzas, Covent Garden.
1834 Figaro in London 11 Jan. 6/2 We..got the answer of ‘Blank, sir,’ from every d—d lottery office clerk in London.
1941 Dublin Hist. Rec. 3 116 As a lottery-office keeper, Mr. Disraell was constantly in the public eye.
2013 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Nov. 8 The elated couple arrived at the lottery offices in Dublin yesterday to collect their cheque.
lottery pot n. †(a) = lot-pot n. at lot n. Compounds 2 (obsolete); (b) the amount of money raised by or available to be won in a lottery.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing by casting lots > object used in > container for
urn1513
lot-pot1603
lottery pot1629
1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 1 Scroles shufled together in a lottery pott.
1937 Laredo (Texas) Times 11 June 1/4 When the name was drawn there was nobody present to take the big $850 lottery pot.
2013 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 23 Sept. 11 Sixteen organisations had put in bids in the summer for a share in the bumper lottery pot.
lottery puff n. now historical an exaggerated or misleading advertisement for a lottery; cf. puff n. 6b.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising specific thing > [noun] > lottery
lottery lanterna1777
lottery puff1795
lottery squib1806
1795 Crit. Rev. Oct. 224 This collection consists of detached scraps and sentences... We should have been surprised to find a lottery puff among them, if we had not recollected that this perhaps is the main object.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk xiv. 309 Of all puffs, lottery-puffs are the most ingenious and most innocent... All prizes and No blanks—a self-evident imposition!
1867 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 413 His poetical productions..should be forgotten, with the lottery puffs and the epigrams whereby he undertook to eke out his income.
2012 G. Hicks First Adman iv. 61 Thomas Hood, then tentatively starting out on a career as a literary journalist which he supplemented by hack work, including lottery puffs.
† lottery squib n. Obsolete = lottery puff n.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising specific thing > [noun] > lottery
lottery lanterna1777
lottery puff1795
lottery squib1806
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. v. 172 Curse me if the stupid dunce of an editor did not put it in the puffing corner, with two lottery squibs and a wonderful cure of the gout by electricity.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. v. 118 A quack's puff would put him out of temper for the day,..and a lottery squib of Bish rendered him miserable for a fortnight.
lottery ticket n. (a) a numbered ticket bought in order to participate in a lottery; (b) (in plural) = sense 4 (obsolete).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > ticket
blank1567
lottery ticket1676
benefit-ticket1694
horse1726
premium bond1820
coupon1909
scratch-off1985
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > lottery
lottery1754
lottery ticket1813
1676 J. M. Sports & Pastimes 5 Roul up a piece of white Paper as hard as are your Lottery Tickets, till it is as thick as a Tobacco pipe.
1710 J. Gordon Diary May (1949) 190 His Son..had inform'd him that he has received my Lottery Ticket & that the number is 33366.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. xvi. 174 Being likewise extremely fond of lottery tickets, she soon grew too much interested in the game, too eager in making bets and exclaiming after prizes, to have attention for any one in particular.
1837 Miss Eden's Lett. 17 Apr. (1919) 287 So then we went, like Lydia Bennet, to a good game at Lottery tickets.
1949 Amer. Speech 24 190 People unable to afford a regular lottery ticket could wager small amounts on the outcome of the drawing.
2009 Chesapeake Life June 46/3 A shop that..sells road maps, lottery tickets, Slim Jims, and six-packs of cold Bud.
lottery vagrant n. now historical a person who illegally sells insurance against the purchase of a lottery ticket which does not win a prize.Earliest in lottery vagrant act, with reference to an Act of Parliament, passed in 1787, which stated that anyone found guilty of selling such insurance would be liable to prosecution under the Vagrancy Act.
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1792 Universal Mag. Feb. 153/2 Every house within the rules, converted to the purpose of defeating the lottery vagrant act, should be excluded from, and deemed to be no part of, the rules.
1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis iii. 63 An idle or suspicious character, or Lottery vagrant.
1804 Proc. Old Bailey 16 May 294/2 John French and John Bailey, lottery vagrants, taken by Cooper to the Poultry Compter.
2012 A. Eccles Vagrancy in Law & Pract. under Old Poor Law iii. 59 Several of the lottery vagrants brought within the vagrancy laws by the 1787 Lottery Act (27 Geo. III c. 1 1787) appealed.
lottery wheel n. a device with a revolving drum, used in a lottery to mix up the numbered slips or balls; frequently (and earliest) figurative or in allusive use; cf. wheel of fortune at wheel n. 5.Modern lotteries frequently use other types of device, either mechanical or electronic, to randomize numbers.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > wheels, etc.
Ragman rollc1450
luck in a bag1649
wheel1698
lottery wheel1739
1739 Man Superior to Woman Concl. 67 A Retailer of Criss-cross Sentences, whose Brain is a mere Lottery-Wheel of Sense and Nonsense..five hundred Blanks to one Prize.
1789 Times 2 Oct. 3/3 This is the..man who was apprehended for being concerned in having a ticket stolen from the Lottery wheel, that it might be redrawn at a stated time.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vi, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 244/1 A world of words,..where..false—true—and foul—and fair, As in a lottery-wheel are shook.
1913 W. Irwin in McClure's Mag. Apr. 55/2 The lottery wheel, filled with many thousands of numbers, was within plain view of the throng.
1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 22 Apr. 18 With the millionaire's club expanding with almost every turn of the lottery wheel, a new dividing line has sprung up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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