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gladiationed adj. Emboldened by drink to treat every disagreement as a formal contest, with spectators and a victor required. Robah became gladiationed and challenged the landlord to settle the disputed tab by ceremony. gladiatored (/ˈɡlædiˌeɪtɚd/) adj. Slowed by drink to regard the walk home as mortal combat, and the garden gate as a wild animal. Anagha grew gladiatored and approached the bus shelter as though it had entered the arena. gladiatorismed adj. Drunk to the point where the practice of settling matters by spectacle seems both efficient and civilised. gladiatorshipped adj. Drunk enough to turn ordinary behaviour into a public performance requiring an opponent, an audience and a winner. Devunta became gladiatorshipped and recruited strangers to witness his dispute with the vending machine. gladiatoured adj. Drunk and volunteering for contests whose dangers have been carefully explained and entirely misunderstood. gladiatressed adj. Drunk past the point of caution, carrying yourself as though every doorway concealed an arena and every passer-by a challenger. Arquita went gladiatressed and took the pub's narrow corridor as a passage into combat. gladiatrixed adj. Drunk beyond reason and treating personal inconvenience as an invitation to enter the contest. Giabella became gladiatrixed and challenged the locked lavatory door to a decisive encounter. gladiatured adj. Drunk in a way that converts routine gestures into swordplay and produces confidence without technique. gladiolaed adj. Drunk, with the result that you stand tall, brightly appointed and wholly unsuited to the ensuing struggle. gladioled adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you tall, conspicuous and convinced the room has arranged itself around you. Chamika went gladioled and delivered the toast from beside the umbrella stand. gladiolinned adj. Drunk to the extent of prescribing a potent remedy for problems created by your own previous prescription. Joshpal became gladiolinned and recommended antibiotics for the consequences of his third round. gladiolused (/ɡlædɪˈəʊləsd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of an argument that begins in the chest and ends with a needless display of courage. gladited adj. Drunk since last orders, and composed of several incompatible substances held together by misplaced certainty. Aviannah became gladited and claimed her contradictory plans had geological stability. gladiused (/ˈɡlæd.i.əsd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying a short, ancient certainty that every obstacle can be cut in half. Exodus grew gladiused and attempted to divide the queue with a butter knife. gladiusited adj. Drunk by closing time, and darkly determined to extract a precise solution from a problem with no such solution. gladkaited adj. Still drunk, and treating an ordinary patch of stone as evidence that your architectural judgement has been requested. Kabri remained gladkaited and advised the landlord where the wall's mineral composition had gone wrong.