Meanings
comparative more battailous · superlative most battailous
- obsoleteWarlike, 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 90-911 more example
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
Origin
- Old Frenchbataillos
- Middle Englishbataylous
- Englishbattailous
From Middle English bataylous, from Old French bataillos, from bataille (“battle”); equivalent to battle + -ous.
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