arenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arenic
form: most arenic
Etymology: From arena (“sand; enclosed area”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sandy.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1899 June 16, “Saturday Night Thoughts”, in State Rights Democrat, volume XXXIV, Albany, Ore., page [4], column 5:
text: His arenic battle with the bull and saving of the Christian maiden was exciting and splendidly acted.
ref: 1901 December 16, “Amusements”, in Duluth Evening Herald, page 6, column 4:
text: A few of the arenic, mid-air, eqestrian,^([sic]) hippodrome and trained animal acts include the famous Bellfords; […]
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1919 Christmas, F. T. Gordon, “A Battle to the Death”, in San Francisco News Letter, page forty-two, column 2:
text: Both boys are in wonderful trim and fight fans are all set for one of the greatest arenic battles ever staged in Portsmouth.
ref: 1921 February 12, “Loses Forfeit”, in The Portsmouth Daily Times, volume twenty-seven, Portsmouth, Ohio, page three, column 5:
text: Dempsey Has Been In Sixty-Four Arenic Battles / NEW YORK, July 1.—Veterans of numerous gory ring battles, will face each other in the ring when Jack Dempsey defends his heavyweight title against the challenge of Georges Carpentier in the Jersey City ring, July 2.
ref: 1921 July 1, The Portsmouth Daily Times, volume twenty-eight, Portsmouth, Ohio, page [19], column 3:
text: Still, men who are born with a yen for hammering and who are endowed with arenic talents fight anyway.
ref: 1932 June 11, “Ed. Hughes’ Column”, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 91st year, number 162, New York, N.Y., page 12:
text: Seasoned and skilled political generals, veterans of a thousand arenic battles; strong men who will give and take without quarter, are in the convention, fighting a battle they believe to have been illy planned, illy advised and erroneously conceived.
ref: 1932 June 15, “Leaders Grim And Desperate At Chicago Republican Convention—They Are Men Who Are In Their Present Fix Because Of President Hoover’s Odd Leadership—Prohibition Is Supreme Question—All Else Lies Passive”, in Belleville Daily News-Democrat, volume 77, number 141, Belleville, Ill., page four, column 2:
text: What shall the next subject be? Someone decides on spanking—the next most popular subject for arenic battles.
ref: 1934 February, Medical Economics, volume 11, number 5, page 85, column 1:
text: I didn’t go to the cockfights at Baleta Barrio on the road to Taal. Last time I’d lost 200 pesos! Elena loved the wildness, the bloody, arenic battle, the wild cries of the cocks.
ref: 1988, Richard E. Hoffmann, The Bamboo American, New Day Publishers, →ISBN, page 60:
text: “You are a Martian warrior. This is what they have come to see.” “Who?” “Your audience.” “This is an arenic fight? Gladiatorial?” Sek laughed. “A little grandiose, perhaps. Though, obviously, it is an arranged form of combat.[…]”
ref: 2004, Liz Williams, Banner of Souls, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 309:
glosses: Pertaining to an arena.