battailous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English bataylous, from Old French bataillos, from bataille (“battle”); equivalent to battle + -ous.
Adjective edit
battailous (comparative more battailous, superlative most battailous)
- (obsolete) Warlike, battle-ready.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene II, verses 90-91:
- Lie! — but begone all ceremonious points
Of honour battailous. I could not turn
My wrath against thee for the orbed world.