| n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net 2006-08-03, 2:52 am |
| "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
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> <n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>[ . . . ]
> It would be interesting to discover any writings extant from Luca Pacioli
> (1455-1509) since the gent was a mathematician and friend of Leonardo da
> Vinci, whose own papers as we know were to uncertain degree destroyed.
> Leonardo met Ruy Lopez in Rome, and was defeated, and which could have
> been as early as 1560, if "it is the contest referred to by Lopez
> himself." Subsequently Leonardo played many games with Boi, and was
> apparentlyu of equal strength.
Interesting, Phil. Although I have studies the art & science of "'nardo"
for many decades, I don't recall mention of his chessmanship. Your
knowledge of chess history is apparently far greater than mine.
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> I didn't know SPORTULARY was in the OED. There seems no exact date,
> though Sir James Maurray's NED, 1919, cited "1600s".
> And the word is mentioned in Henry Edwards's Old Engish Customes, Curious
> Bequests and Charities (1842)
>
> A very uncertain definition leads to [A. Sax], in SPORE; spur; prick -
> from which the derivation might be "to bleed" someone for cash.
>
> He smote the stede wyth the sporys
> And sparred nother dyke nor forowe.
> /MS Cantab. Ff ii 38, f 159
>
> Though more recently may be from A. N. and SPORGE: to have a lask; to
> clean or cleanse, and a word still in use 1850, and some derivations mean
> 'to bring to an end' - hence, ending suffering or want by means of a
> dole.
The complete entry in the OED2 on CD-ROM, v. 1.14, © OUP, 1994, is:
'sportulary, a. Obs.1
[f. L. sportula little basket, dole, gift, dim. of sporta sport n.2]
Supported by, dependent or subsisting on, the doles or gifts of patrons.
1649 Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. vii. (1650) 231 Hereupon it is, that these
sportulary preachers are faine to sooth up their many maisters.
One of the nice things about obsolete words is the brevity of the entries.
I love languages. Words are the way we communicate, math is the language of
sciences.
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