the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The conduct, state, or occupation of a gladiator.
Word Usage
"I cannot convey to you who know him now -- with his careworn face and abrupt, dry manner, reduced by perpetual gladiatorship to the skin and bone of his former self -- what that man was when he first stepped into the arena of life."