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1915, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 116, page 642:
When the dance was done there was the cock-fight, or rather a century of cock-fights, to be reckoned with. For two hundred of these luckless creatures 'gladiatored' bravely, while an appreciative audience held matting up to its chin to keep from being bespattered with blood.
2013 December 4, “What it's like to spend 20 years on death row”, in The Telegraph:
The guards made me fight other prisoners for their own amusement. It was called gladiatoring.
To compete in a public contest.
1994, Saxophone Journal - Volume 19, page 32:
I played very well as was evidenced in that I was the only participant in the entire six or seven days of wind gladiatoring who received a standing ovation from the orchestra, no less.
2019, Ruth Park, A Fence Around the Cuckoo: Text Classics, page 256:
1895, Athol Mayhew, A Jorum of "Punch" with Those who Helped to Brew it:
He did his gladiatoring doubtless without malice, and from a purely sporting instinct — even as Mr. Punch gave the provocation.
1988, Bernard S. Jackson, Law, fact and narrative coherence, page 71:
Quoting the accounts in both Time and Newsweek, they note that though the "defense attorney may have outwitted, outsparred, and even "out gladiatored" (another popular image in the trial coverage) his opponent, but he still lost the case.
2005, John K. Hale, Milton's Cambridge Latin: Performing in the Genres, 1625-1632:
It was all part of the gladiatoring: the true performer would argue each case to the utmost, like a debater or mooter in our own world.
2010, John O'Mahony, R. L. Praeger, The Sunny Side of Ireland, page 71:
Och! lave off your gladiatoring; sure it's took up I'd be if I did that!
Why, thin, Mister Levi Slam, don't you think now that a volley poured into them haythen mosquitos beyant would put a stop to their gladiatoring a little?
1946, George A. Birmingham, The Piccadilly Lady, page 70:
It's the Count von Eisenstein," says he, "that's come over to Eire for protection against the murdering English who are marauding and gladiatoring about Germany and would kill him if they could, but thanks be to God," says my bold McQuirk, "he'll be safe enough here and it'll be a good thing to have a friend of the Irish people living in Kilfenora Castle, though maybe you won't like it."
1981, Ruth Park, The Frost And The Fire, page 162:
Have I been gladiatoring about the place, boys? Did I squeeze the wizendy little fella a bit rough like?
Danish
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gladiator; entertainer who engages in mortal combat
Latin
gladiātōrēs (gladiators)
Etymology
Derived from either gladiō(“I use the sword”) + -tor(“-tor”) or gladior(“I use the sword”) + -tor(“-tor”). The verb gladiāre/gladiārī is attested only indirectly from derived forms such as gladiātor, ars gladiandī or, in an inscription, gladiantēs.
“gladiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
gladiator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
gladiator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to give a gladiatorial show: gladiatores dare
at the gladiatorial games: gladiatoribus (Att. 2. 19. 3)
gladiator on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
