solatium

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He was a Dominican friar, and his treatise, Solatium Ludi Scacchorum, scilicet, Libellus de Moribus Hominum et Officiis Nobilium, was written before the year 1200.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

Ballad: Solatium Comes the broken flower - Comes the cheated maid - Though the tempest lower, Rain and cloud will fade!

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Solatium, sō-lā′shi-um, n. any compensation, a sum legally awarded, over and above actual damages, by way of compensation for wounded feelings.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Just as plants of higher organization choose their soils, some growing in the water and some on land, so the Peronospora infestans chooses its host plant; and its soil is this species, the Solatium tuberosum.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various