scacchic
adjUS, UK /ˈskækɪk/
Etymology Borrowed from Italian scacchi (“chess”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Scacchi is derived from Provençal escac (“chess piece”), from Persian شاه (šâh, “king, shah; (chess) king”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to get control or power over; to obtain, receive; to take by the hand”). Doublet of chess.
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Rare Of or relating to chess.
- [A]lthough Brunet y Bellet has indeed given a valuable description and reproduction of the Introductory portions of the scacchic part of that MS., he does not pretend to treat the positions of even that section, and has little or nothing to say about the pages filled with examples of other games.1905, Willard Fiske, Chess in Iceland and Icelandic Literature, page 201:
- The second theme to feed in from Bloodline is that of playing games. This is certainly true of the scacchic opening, […]2006, Paul Kane, The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, →ISBN, page 170:
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- In response to this barbarity, the philosopher Philometer invents chess, effectively replacing the body metaphor with the scacchic metaphor.2008, Mark N. Taylor, “Mirror to the Polity”, in Review of Politics, →DOI: