battalia

American  

[buh-teyl-yuh, -tahl-] / bəˈteɪl yə, -ˈtɑl- /

noun

Obsolete.

1. order of battle.

2. an armed or arrayed body of troops.

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Etymology

Origin of battalia

1585–95; < Italian battaglia body of troops, battle ¹

Example Sentences

The armies being joined, the king, who was now a match for Wallenstein, quits his camp and draws up in battalia before the Imperial trenches: but the scene was changed.

From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel

All over the middle and southern states the spear-shaped battalia, multitudinous, curving, flaunting—long, glossy, dark-green plumes for the great horseman, earth.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Both armies being drawn out in battalia, that of the King's, trusting to their numbers, began to charge with great fury, but without any order.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Swift, Jonathan