See also:

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

CONSOLATION (Fr. consolation, See also:

• LAT

Lat. consolatio, from consolari, to assuage, comfort, See also:

• CONSOLE (a French form, supposed to be an abbreviation of consolide, from Lat. consolidare, to strengthen)

console)  , in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, the soothing of disappointment or grief . The word is applied equally to the See also:

• ACTION

action of consoling, to the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of being consoled, and to the See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments by which comfort is brought . Thus we speak of a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person making attempts at See also:

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

consolation, of receiving consolation, and e.g. of the consolations of See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion . In the sense of See also:

• COMPENSATION (from Lat. compensare, to weigh one thing against another)

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 See also:

• SYNOD
• SYNOD (Gr. vbvobos)

synod of See also:

• ANGERS

Angers (453) decreed that those clerics " qui sunt caelibes, nonnisi a sororibus See also:

• AUT

aut amatis aut matribus consolentur "; consolatio was also the name given,e.g., to the evening See also:

• MEAL

meal given to monks after the See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• COLLATION (Lat. collatio, from conferre, to bring together or compare)

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 See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize," " consolation See also:

• RACE

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 See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French gambling See also:

• 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 See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board divided into sections numbered from r to 6, upon which the players See also:

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

place their stakes, and a See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die which is shaken in a See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box and thrown onthe board . The banker, usually a professional gambler, pays five times the See also:

• MONEY

money on the winning number and pockets the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest . His chances of winning are overwhelming, as the die is never thrown until a stake has been placed upon all six compartments .