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单词 gladiator
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gladiatorn.

Brit. /ˈɡladɪeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈɡlædiˌeɪdər/
Etymology: < Latin gladiātor, < gladius sword.
1. Historical. Among the ancient Romans, one who fought with a sword or other weapon at public shows; usually a slave or captive trained for the purpose.Gladiator is employed by Cicero as a term of abuse; cf. quot. 1541.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > [noun] > gladiator
swordmana1387
sword-player1538
gladiator1541
fence-man1558
fencer1587
sworder1594
Samnite1600
sword-fencer1600
mirmilloner1623
mirmillo1638
mirmillon1656
1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xviii. f. 31v If I had demed it best..to put Catiline to deth, I wolde not haue giuen this gladiatour one houre space to liue.
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 447 This man dreamed..that when the Gladiators or Fencers exercised their arte at Syracusa..he should be slaine by one Retiarius.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 72 The Gladiator thinkes it a disgrace, to see himselfe compos'd with one..inferiour to himselfe.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 345 Amphitheaters..wherein they [sc. the Romans] had severall delightsome shewes to exhilerate the people, Gladiators, Cumbats of men with themselues.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 452 The Tribun Cato was perpetually inveighing against keeping Gladiators.
1773 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. II. 39 The barbarous exhibition of gladiators.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 12 (note) Something is requisite beyond the skill of the mere gladiator, to conduct war itself.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxl. 73 I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand—his manly brow Consents to death.
1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 39 The Christians steadily refused to admit any professional gladiator to baptism.
figurative.1668 J. Denham Poems 184 Then whilst his Foe, each Gladiator foyls, The Atheist looking on, enjoys the spoyls.1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 40 Not so Dr. Swift; he appears like a masterly gladiator. He wields the sword of party with ease, justness and dexterity.1841–4 R. W. Emerson Polit. in Wks. (1906) I. 244 The gladiators in the lists of power feel..the presence of worth.1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 265 Intellectual gladiators, each trying his strength against the rest.1884 Christian World 23 Oct. 805/2 Mr. Chamberlain has..figured..prominently as a Ministerial gladiator.
2. A professional swordsman or fencer. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other performances > [noun] > other performers
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mountebank1566
fencer1572
gladiator1621
siffleur1827
geisha1887
pole-sitter1927
stunt man1930
flagpole sitter1931
yo-yoist1933
mnemonist1969
yo-yoer1973
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 348 For that cause, Playes,..Gladiators, Tumblers, Iuglers, &c. and all that crewe is admitted.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 449 ⁋7 [cf. No. 436 ] There is a Mystery among the Gladiators which has escaped your Spectatorial Penetration.
c1733 Epit. in St. Michael's Churchyard, Coventry John Parkes..a Gladiator by Profession, who after Having fought 350 battles in the principal parts of Europe..at length quitted the stage [etc.].
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxiii. 166 His own honour would have forbidden him from mixing his private pleasures or conversation with jockeys, gamesters, blasphemers, gladiators, or buffoons.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as gladiator fight; gladiator-like adv.
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1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xciv. 50 The new race of inborn slaves, who..rather than be free, Bleed gladiator-like.
1846 H. W. Torrens Remarks Uses Mil. Hist. 109 Their gladiator fights..offer sufficient proof of the sanguinary nature of the people.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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