a. [ad. L. lūsōri-us (see prec.).] Used as a pastime; of the nature of play or sport. Of composition: Written in a playful style.
1653. Gataker, Vind. Annot. Jer., 173. A lusorie Lot is lawful.
a. 1694. Tillotson, Serm. (1743), XII. 5457. Which signifies just nothing, but is lusory and trifling.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), III. Misc. II. iii. 119. God, as a kind Tutor, was pleas’d to … bear with his Anger, and in a lusory manner, expose his childish Frowardness.
1779. Johnson, L. P., E. Smith, Wks. II. 456. Mr. Philips’s ode … after the manner of Horace’s lusory or amatorian odes is … a masterpiece.
1791–1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1866), 361. There is a refined species of comic poetry,—lusory yet elegant.
