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Gladiatorial

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glad·i·a·tor  (gld-tr)
n.
1. A person, usually a professional combatant, a captive, or a slave, trained to entertain the public by engaging in mortal combat with another person or a wild animal in the ancient Roman arena.
2. A person engaged in a controversy or debate, especially in public; a disputant.
3. Sports A professional boxer.
[Middle English, from Latin gladitor, from gladius, sword, of Celtic origin.]
gladi·a·tori·al (--tôr-l, -tr-) adj.
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Adj.1.gladiatorial - of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat; "gladiatorial combats"
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"It seems," I said to the others, "that we are going to assist at a gladiatorial show arranged regardless of expense.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
In addition to the gladiatorial combats and other shows, they sometimes threw members of the hated sect into the arena of the Coliseum and turned wild beasts in upon them.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
But the earnest desire to look on blood and death, is not peculiar to those dark ages; though in the gladiatorial exercise of single combat and general tourney, they were habituated to the bloody spectacle of brave men failing by each other's hands.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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