Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as reversis.
- n. A modern game played by two persons with sixty-four counters. differently colored on opposite sides, on a board of sixty-four squares. A player, on placing a counter on a vacant square, “reverses” (that is, turns over, and thus appropriates) all his opponent's pieces lying in unbroken line in any direction between the piece thus placed and any other of his own pieces already on the board. A counter cannot be removed from its square, but may be reversed again and again.
Wiktionary
- n. A strategy game for two players, areas of the board being captured by surrounding rows of the opponent's pieces with one's own.
- n. The card game reversis.
Etymologies
- So named because the playing pieces have two differently colored sides, which are reversed when captured to indicate that they are now the capturer's. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Game boards and game pieces have some value if carefully cut out by an adult, though not suggested for the particular game ‘reversi’.”
“Tandem rex, consultis magistris Parisiensibus super puerorum congregacione, ex eius precepto reversi sunt in sua.”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Note 75: Albrici monachi Trium-Fontium Chronicon, p. 640: "Ribaldi vero ipsis associati et mali homines ita totum exercitum infecerunt, quod quibusdam pereuntibus in mari, quibusdam venundatis, pauci de tanta multitudine sunt reversi." back”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Now, when can I buy and download a decent trivia quiz, solitaire game, reversi and connect 4 to my K700i?”
“Phicol princeps exercitus ejus, et reversi sunt in terram Pelisthim.”
“Et sciderunt vestimenta sua, et oneravit unusquique asinum suum, et reversi sunt in urbem.”
“Quia nisi tardavissemus, certe nunc reversi fuissemus jam bis.”
“Writing dS = δq/T and integrating, he obtained where the path of integration corresponds to a reversi - ble transformation from the thermodynamic state A to the thermodynamic state B.”
“In the evening we played a party of reversi with republican cards, * and heard the children sing "Mourrons pour la Patrie.”
“In her salon there were four or five barbarians solemnly playing reversi, and two or three young men of family, as utterly vapid as it is allowable for a man to be who has sixteen quarterings of nobility.”
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