Gladiator

Gladiator, one who fought in the arena at Rome with men or beasts for the amusement of the people, originally in connection with funeral games, under the belief, it is said, that the spirits of the dead were appeased at the sight of blood; exhibitions of the kind were common under the emperors, and held on high occasions; if the gladiator was wounded in the contest, the spectators decided whether he was to live or die by, in the former case, turning their thumbs downwards, and in the latter turning them upwards.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Glacier * Gladstone, William Ewart
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Girard, Stephen
Girardin, Émile de
Girardin, François Saint-Marc
Gironde
Girondins
Girtin, Thomas
Girton College
Gizeh
Glacier
Gladiator
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glaisher, James
Glamorganshire
Glanvill, Joseph
Glanvill, Ranulf de
Glasgow
Glasse, Mrs.
Glassites
Glastonbury
Glein, Ludwig

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