battailous

[ bat-l-uhs ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. ready for battle; warlike.

Word History and Origins

Origin of battailous¹

1350–1400; Middle English batailous < Middle French bataillos. See battle ¹, -ous

Example Sentences

When, now enraged, proud Leon's king beheld Those walls subdued, which saw his troops expell'd; Enrag'd he saw them own the victor's sway, And hems them round with battailous array.

From Project Gutenberg

At last the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phœbus fresh, as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his deawie hayre, And hurl’d his glist’ring beams through gloomy ayre: Which when the wakeful elfe perceived, streightway He started up, and did him selfe prepayre In sun-bright armes and battailous array; For with that pagan proud he combat will that day.

From Project Gutenberg

His mind had not that reach and elemental movement of Milton’s, which, like the trade-wind, gathered to itself thoughts and images like stately fleets from every quarter; some deep with silks and spicery, some brooding over the silent thunders of their battailous armaments, but all swept forward in their destined track, over the long billows of his verse, every inch of canvas strained by the unifying breath of their common epic impulse.

From Project Gutenberg

The "battailous" spirit of the West is not to be expected in a Byzantine sophist.

From Project Gutenberg

Right in the van, On the red rampart's slippery swell, With heart that beat a charge, he fell Forward, as fits a man: But the high soul burns on to light men's feet Where death for noble ends makes dying sweet; His life her crescent's span Orbs full with share in their undarkening days Who ever climbed the battailous steeps of praise Since valor's praise began.

From Project Gutenberg