Meaning of sphairistic | Babel Free

Definitions

Of, like, or pertaining to tennis; tending to play tennis, especially lawn tennis, with crebrity.

historical, rare

Examples

“If you are sphairistic, you are playing tennis.”

“Finally he turned to the huge volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary where he found that the word 'sphairistic', labelled 'rare', meant tennis playing.”

“Some rare words are learned formations, such as 'sphairistic' meaning 'lawn-tennis-playing'”

“I hope it will not be taken amiss if I say that, while we have no objection to people walking behind the bowler's arm when the bowler is Australian, we deprecate its sphairistic equivalent.”

“The World of June 14, 1882, was writing: 'Lawn-tennis has not to answer for many accidents, so that two in a week among the sphairistic ladies of Ireland seems alarming.' Croquet as a country-house pastime could not compete with the new …”

“When, exactly a century, Major Wall Clopton Wingfield issued the early rules on the sphairistic.”

CEFR level