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Webster 1913 Edition
Amphitheatrical
{
Amˊphi-the-at′ric
,Amˊphi-the-at′ric-al
, }Adj.
[L.
amphitheatricus
.] Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
Webster 1828 Edition
Amphitheatrical
AMPHITHEAT'RICAL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
amphitheatrical
amphitheatrical
English
Adjective
amphitheatrical (comparative more amphitheatrical, superlative most amphitheatrical)
- Having some of the characteristics of an amphitheatre.
- 1829, "Metropolitan Improvements", in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, No. 361, page 184:
- A new Chapel, of novel design, being of an amphitheatrical form, has been recently completed, from the designs of W. Brooks, architect.
- 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance:
- The hall was fitted up with an amphitheatrical descent of seats towards a platform, on which stood a desk, two lights, a stool, and a capacious antique chair.
- 1919, John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World,
- In the high, amphitheatrical Nicolai Hall that afternoon I saw the Duma sitting in permanence, tempestuous, grouping around it all the forces of opposition.
- 1829, "Metropolitan Improvements", in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, No. 361, page 184: