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Definition of Gladiatorial
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat. "Gladiatorial combats"
Definition of Gladiatorial
1. a. Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.
Definition of Gladiatorial
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a gladiator. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gladiatorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladiatorial
Literary usage of Gladiatorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"The same Alypius is dragged by companions at Rome to the Colisseum, and is
delighted with the gladiatorial games. HE, in pursuit of the secular avocation, ..."
2. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"gladiatorial Games. — Among these new shows were the horrible gladiatorial games.
... A gladiatorial contest was a combat in which two men fought each other ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF gladiatorial SHOWS ON THE ROMAN PEOPLE THE gladiatorial
games form, indeed, the one feature of Roman society which to a modern mind ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Cicero in л well-known passa ce commends the gladiatorial games as the best
discipline against the fear of death and suffering that can be presented to the ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... SHEPPARD'S ESTIMATE OP THE gladiatorial CONTEST The gladiatorial combats were,
above all things else, the distinctive characteristics of Rome. ..."
6. Readings in Ancient History by Hutton Webster (1913)
"Whether they are great and wise I do not know, but they certainly are not men.
The true man is sensible to pain and feeling. . . . 110. A gladiatorial Show ..."
7. Readings in Ancient History by Hutton Webster (1913)
"Whether they are great and wise I do not know, but they certainly are not men.
The true man is sensible to pain and feeling. ... 110. A gladiatorial Show at ..."
8. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF gladiatorial SHOWS ON THE ROMAN PEOPLE THE gladiatorial
... to give a gladiatorial show to soldiers before their departure to a war. ..."
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