bellic

See also: bèl·lic

English

Alternative forms

• bellical

Etymology

From Latin bellicus.

Adjective

bellic (comparative more bellic, superlative most bellic)

1. (obsolete) warlike; martial
   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:

     The bellic Cesar, as Suetonius tells us, was noted for singularity in his Apparel, and did not content himself without adding something to his Senators Purple Robe.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bellic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)