gladiatorial

From gladiator +‎ -ial.

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

gladiatorial (comparative more gladiatorial, superlative most gladiatorial)

1. Of or pertaining to a gladiator.

   Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 313:

     "And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country."

• gladiatorially

• gladiator
• gladiatress
• gladiatrix