英语词汇“royal oak lottery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. Usually with capital initials. A lottery of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, originally organized to benefit poor Royalist veterans of the English Civil War. Frequently as Royal Oak lottery. Now historical.

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1663 E. Hayward Let. 21 Dec. in J. Q. Adams Dramatic Rec. Sir Henry Herbert (1917) 133 Not Doubting but that I shalbe reimbursed and encouraged when the business is in a more setled way, that the royall oake Lotteries, and musick are reduced to obedience.

1665 in Aberdeen Jrnl. Notes & Queries (1914) 7 120 The practiseing of the game called the Royall Oak.

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 Ah Pox confound that Will's Coffee-House, it has ruin'd more Young Men than the Royal Oak Lottery.

1703 Daily Courant 4 Oct. 2/1 A Comedy call'd, The Sullen Lovers... With a new prologue by way of Elegy on the Death of the Royal Oak Lottery.

1718 A. de Moivre Doctr. Chances Pref. p. iii When the Play of the Royal Oak was in use, some Persons who lost considerably by it, had their losses chiefly occasioned by an Argument of which they could not perceive the Fallacy.

1899 Pall Mall Mag. 19 547 As early as 1696, lotteries, with the exception of the Royal Oak lottery, were prohibited as common nuisances.

2003 Huntington Libr. Q. 66 156 In 1664 Nathaniel Cole, a former mayor of Bristol, complained to Joseph Williamson that the Royal Oak, a veteran's lottery, ruined many young men.

单词	royal oak lottery
释义	> as lemmas Royal Oak lottery 2. Usually with capital initials. A lottery of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, originally organized to benefit poor Royalist veterans of the English Civil War. Frequently as Royal Oak lottery. Now historical. ΚΠ 1663 E. Hayward Let. 21 Dec. in J. Q. Adams Dramatic Rec. Sir Henry Herbert (1917) 133 Not Doubting but that I shalbe reimbursed and encouraged when the business is in a more setled way, that the royall oake Lotteries, and musick are reduced to obedience. 1665 in Aberdeen Jrnl. Notes & Queries (1914) 7 120 The practiseing of the game called the Royall Oak. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 Ah Pox confound that Will's Coffee-House, it has ruin'd more Young Men than the Royal Oak Lottery. 1703 Daily Courant 4 Oct. 2/1 A Comedy call'd, The Sullen Lovers... With a new prologue by way of Elegy on the Death of the Royal Oak Lottery. 1718 A. de Moivre Doctr. Chances Pref. p. iii When the Play of the Royal Oak was in use, some Persons who lost considerably by it, had their losses chiefly occasioned by an Argument of which they could not perceive the Fallacy. 1899 Pall Mall Mag. 19 547 As early as 1696, lotteries, with the exception of the Royal Oak lottery, were prohibited as common nuisances. 2003 Huntington Libr. Q. 66 156 In 1664 Nathaniel Cole, a former mayor of Bristol, complained to Joseph Williamson that the Royal Oak, a veteran's lottery, ruined many young men. extracted from royal oakn. < as lemmas
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