arenic

1. not comparablechemistryPertaining to an arene.

comparative more arenic · superlative most arenic

1. geographySandy.
2. Pertaining to an arena.

   His arenic battle with the bull and saving of the Christian maiden was exciting and splendidly acted.

   1901 December 16, “Amusements”, in Duluth Evening Herald, page 6, column 4

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   The Sports of the Arena. A scene from the coliseum or circus of the prehistoric world, representing the King and Queen of Atlantis, with their courtiers and followers, watching a fierce arenic fight between a mammoth and a buffalo.

   1883 February 7, “Mardi-Gras, ’83. New Orleans in Her Glory—A Series of Spectacular Splendors Surpassing Previous Years. The Phunny Phellows, the Moons, the Crew of Proteus and the Knights of Momus in Line. The “Lost Atlantis,” the “Drama Burlesqued” and “New Illustrations of Popular Rhymes,” […]”, in The Memphis Daily Appeal, volume XLIII, number 30, Memphis, Tenn., page [2], column 4

   During the week there has been a big arenic fight between two men in the east one the recognized champion of the world, the other a young and new star comparatively.

   1899 June 16, “Saturday Night Thoughts”, in State Rights Democrat, volume XXXIV, Albany, Ore., page [4], column 5

   A few of the arenic, mid-air, eqestrian,^([sic]) hippodrome and trained animal acts include the famous Bellfords; […]

   1905 June 23, “An American Institution: Varied Programme Offered By Norris and Rowe’s Greater Circus, at Brainerd July 7th”, in Brainerd Daily Dispatch, volume 5, number 18, Brainerd, Minn., page [3], column 5

   They caused to revert to the white race a championship that was surrendered to the black when he, with comparative ease, gave Jim Jeffries a sleeping potion that sunny afternoon of July 4, 1910, out there in historic Reno, where divorces are easy to get and where fame was invited through the agency of one of the most important arenic battles in the history of the prize ring.

   1915 April 6, “The World of Sport: One Turn of the Head Cost Black the Fight; Willard Won It by Biding Time and Waiting for Chance. Says He “Had to Win”; Craft and Steam of Big Negro Would Have Put Any Other Fighter Out of the Contest Early, Say Sport Writers Who Saw the Great Battle at Havana Yesterday — Willard Goes to Kansas, Johnson to Paris.”, in The Charleston Mail, Charleston, W.V., page six, column 1

   But the buffalo does possess great quickness of movement. He is almost invariably a victor in those arenic fights with large carnivara though it is generally conceded that the small size of the cages hardly gives the tiger a fair chance.

   1919 Christmas, F. T. Gordon, “A Battle to the Death”, in San Francisco News Letter, page forty-two, column 2