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

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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

INSTRUMENTS

by which comfort is brought. Thus we speak of a person making attempts at

consolation

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

, of receiving

consolation

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

, and e.g. of the consolations of

religion

RELIGION
RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

. 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

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

MEAL

given to monks after the

regular

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

FRENCH
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CHESTER
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FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

gambling

game

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

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

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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