The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amphitheatric \Am`phi*the*at"ric\, Amphitheatrical \Am`phi*the*at"ric*al\, a. [L. amphitheatricus.] Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling an amphitheatre.
WordNet
adj. of or related to an amphitheater [syn: amphitheatrical]
Usage examples of "amphitheatric".
And now, skirting long reaches of its deeply-wooded shores, from which the old forest, never broken by the axe, and rarely ever trod by the foot of the white man, was seen, stretching away back, lift after lift, in pristine grandeur, to the tall summits of the amphitheatric mountains,—now shooting athwart, under some dark headland that stood out boldly disputing the empire with the water, and now threading their way among the clustering green islands that studded the bright and beautiful expanse,—they rowed steadily onward for hours, and at length were gladdened by the sight of the dim but well-remembered outlines of the pointed bay, whose farthest shore was to be the home and haven for most of their number, during their present sojourn in this wild and remote fastness of the wilderness.
Because this was it: an interval, a space, in which the toad-squatting guns, the panting men and the trembling horses paused, amphitheatric about the embattled land, beneath the fading fury of the smoke and the puny yelling, and permitted the sorry business which had dragged on for three years now to be congealed into an irrevocable instant and put to an irrevocable gambit, not by two regiments or two batteries or even two generals, but by two locomotives.
The lake appeared to be inclosed on three sides by amphitheatric mountains, black with spruce up to the gray walls of rock.