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battailous en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English bataylous, from Old French bataillos, from bataille (“battle”); equivalent to battle + -ous.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Warlike, battle-ready.
   • Lie! — but begone all ceremonious points Of honour battailous. I could not turn My wrath against thee for the orbed world. 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene II, verses 90-91:
   • He started vp, and did him selfe prepaire, / In sun-bright armes, and battailous array: / For with that Pagan proud he combat will that day. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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