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† ˈgladiatory, a. and n. Obs.
[ad. L. gladiātōri-us.]
A. adj. = gladiatorial.
1602Segar Hon. Mil. & Civ. iv. iii. §3. 213 The first vse of wearing Crownes was in Tragedies and gladiatory combats. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 220 In the gladiatory art so superlatively expert and dextrous. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. iii. Crit. Hist. 7 The Gladiatory Tribe of the Independants. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 3 Gladiatory combats..were long in Use at Rome.
B. n. Gladiatorial art or practice. In quot. fig.
1653Sir W. Denny Pelican. iii. 223 How comes..such a Gladiatory in the Schools..such Challenges of the Pen, such Animosities in Discourse? |