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CONSOLATION (Fr. consolation, Lat. consolatio, from consolari, to assuage, comfort, console)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 979 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CONSOLATION (Fr. consolation, Lat. consolatio, from consolari, to assuage, comfort, console) , in general, the soothing of disappointment or grief. The word is applied equally to the action of consoling, to the state of being consoled, and to the
instruments
  by which comfort is brought. Thus we speak of a person making attempts at
consolation
 , of receiving
consolation
 , and e.g. of the consolations of
religion
 . In the sense of compensation for loss, the word " consolation " has had a variety of adaptations. Of its use in ecclesiastical Latin, in this sense, Du Cange gives various instances. Thus the synod of
Angers
  (453) decreed that those clerics " qui sunt caelibes, nonnisi a sororibus aut amatis aut matribus consolentur "; consolatio was also the name given,e.g., to the evening
meal
  given to monks after the
regular
  collation " by way of consolation " and to certain payments made to members of chapters over and above the revenues of their benefices. In an analogous sense we use the word in such combinations as " consolation prize," " consolation race," " consolation stakes," meaning such as are open only to competitors who have not won in any preceding " event." Consolation is also the name of a
French
  gambling
game
 , so called because it is usually played on and about race-courses after the races have been run and the players have presumably lost. The necessary implements are a board divided into sections numbered from r to 6, upon which the players
place
  their stakes, and a die which is shaken in a box and thrown onthe board. The banker, usually a professional gambler, pays five times the money on the winning number and pockets the rest. His chances of winning are overwhelming, as the die is never thrown until a stake has been placed upon all six compartments.


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