Ame
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
(2): ( n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; - often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
(3): ( v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.
(4): ( n.) To play at any sport or diversion.
(5): ( n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
(6): ( v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
(7): ( n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.
(8): ( v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
(9): ( v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
(10): ( v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
(11): ( v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
(12): ( a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
(13): ( a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
rabbi, a Jewish teacher, lived at Tiberias in the 4th century. Together with his colleague rabbi Assd (q.v.), he performed judicial functions among his coreligionists. Both were, highly honored, and were styled "judges of Palestine," "the noble pair of priests of Palestine." Both regarded the Samaritans as heathen, because they sold Gentile wine to the Jews (Cholin, fol. 6 b). Ame would also not allow that a Samaritan should be instructed in the law. Against the verbal interpretation of the Scriptures he propounded the thesis, "The law, the prophets, and the word of the wise contain hyperbolical expressions: the law, the cities are great and walled up to heaven' ( Deuteronomy 1:28); the prophets, ‘ so that the earth rent with the sound of them' ( 1 Kings 1:40); the word of the wise, ‘ the daily morning and evening sacrifice. was watered with a golden cup': (Tamid, fol. 29 a)." Another maxim of his was, "No death without sin, no pains without trespasses" (Sabbath, fol. 55 a). See Hamburger, Real-.Encyklop. 2, 56 sq.; Gratz, Gesch. d. Juden, 4, 298, 301, 304, 307; Jost, Gesch. d. Judenth. u. s. Sekten, 2, 160, 162, 165, 195. (B. P.)
