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after-game|ˈɑːftəgeɪm, æ-|
[after- 6.]
prop. A second game played in order to reverse or improve the issues of the first; hence ‘The scheme which may be laid or the expedients which are practised after the original game has miscarried; methods taken after the first turn of affairs.’ J. after-game at Irish, an old game resembling Back-gammon.
1631Sanderson 21 Serm. Ad. Aul. i. (1673) 14 He had need be a good Gamester..to play an after-game of reputation. 1660Milton Free Commw. 427 Losing by a strange after-game of Folly, all the battels we have won. 1669G. Etherege Comic. Rev. (Wright) Here's a turn with all my heart like an aftergame at Irish. 1713Addison Cato iii. vii, Still there remains an after-game to play. 1784Cowper Task ii. 762 What can after-games Of riper joys, and commerce with the world..Add to such erudition? |