"sphairistic" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From sphairistike.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sphairistic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sphairistic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sphairistic (comparative more sphairistic, superlative most sphairistic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Tennis",
          "orig": "en:Tennis",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Racquet sports",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words, Sourcebooks - The Pennsylvania State University Press, page 483",
          "text": "If you are sphairistic, you are playing tennis."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Denis Joseph Grogan, Enquiries and the Reference Process - Grogan's Case Studies in Reference Work, Clive Bingley - The Michigan University Press, page 21",
          "text": "Finally he turned to the huge volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary where he found that the word 'sphairistic', labelled 'rare', meant tennis playing."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Dannie Abse, More Words, British Broadcasting Corporation Publications, page 59",
          "text": "Some rare words are learned formations, such as 'sphairistic' meaning 'lawn-tennis-playing'"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Periodical Magazine Article Authors, The New Yorker - Volume 51 - Issues 20 to 27, F-R Publishing Corporation - The Indiana University Press, page 77",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, F.C. Westley, The Spectator - Volume 193, The Michigan University Press, page 88",
          "text": "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 …"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Brown & Merry, Country Life, Volume 154, Country Life - Limited - The Michigan University Press, page 2024",
          "text": "When, exactly a century, Major Wall Clopton Wingfield issued the early rules on the sphairistic."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of, like, or pertaining to tennis; tending to play tennis, especially lawn tennis, with crebrity."
      ],
      "id": "en-sphairistic-en-adj-YWNpK3H~",
      "links": [
        [
          "pertain",
          "pertain"
        ],
        [
          "tennis",
          "tennis"
        ],
        [
          "lawn",
          "lawn"
        ],
        [
          "crebrity",
          "crebrity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical or rare) Of, like, or pertaining to tennis; tending to play tennis, especially lawn tennis, with crebrity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sphairistic"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From sphairistike.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sphairistic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sphairistic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sphairistic (comparative more sphairistic, superlative most sphairistic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "en:Tennis"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words, Sourcebooks - The Pennsylvania State University Press, page 483",
          "text": "If you are sphairistic, you are playing tennis."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Denis Joseph Grogan, Enquiries and the Reference Process - Grogan's Case Studies in Reference Work, Clive Bingley - The Michigan University Press, page 21",
          "text": "Finally he turned to the huge volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary where he found that the word 'sphairistic', labelled 'rare', meant tennis playing."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Dannie Abse, More Words, British Broadcasting Corporation Publications, page 59",
          "text": "Some rare words are learned formations, such as 'sphairistic' meaning 'lawn-tennis-playing'"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Periodical Magazine Article Authors, The New Yorker - Volume 51 - Issues 20 to 27, F-R Publishing Corporation - The Indiana University Press, page 77",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, F.C. Westley, The Spectator - Volume 193, The Michigan University Press, page 88",
          "text": "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 …"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Brown & Merry, Country Life, Volume 154, Country Life - Limited - The Michigan University Press, page 2024",
          "text": "When, exactly a century, Major Wall Clopton Wingfield issued the early rules on the sphairistic."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of, like, or pertaining to tennis; tending to play tennis, especially lawn tennis, with crebrity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pertain",
          "pertain"
        ],
        [
          "tennis",
          "tennis"
        ],
        [
          "lawn",
          "lawn"
        ],
        [
          "crebrity",
          "crebrity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical or rare) Of, like, or pertaining to tennis; tending to play tennis, especially lawn tennis, with crebrity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sphairistic"
}