battailant
English edit
Etymology edit
From French bataillant, present participle. See battle.
Adjective edit
battailant (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- An Elephant […] That on his backe did beare (as batteilant)
A gilden towre.
Noun edit
battailant (plural battailants)
- (obsolete) A combatant.
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
- he presently thought that he was dead, and that those battaillants that fought so eagerly in the Room, had slain him
References edit
- “battailant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.