a. Obs. [f. L. lūsōri-us belonging to a player (f. lūsor player) + -OUS.] Used in sport or as a pastime.
1613. T. Godwin, Rom. Antiq. (1625), 100. He did not beate the ayre, and flourish with those lusorious, and preparatory weapons, but he did truly fight.
1619. Gataker, Lots, vi. 117. Lusorious Lots; and such as be vsed in game, sport or pastime, for recreation and delight.
1668. G. C., in H. More, Div. Dial., Publ. to Rdr. a 4. The ill Tendency of such loose and lusorious Oratorie.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, II. xvi. (1715), 332. Of Lots there were four sorts, viz. Political, Military, Lusorious, and Divinatory.
