battailous

English

Etymology

From Middle English bataylous, from Old French bataillos, from bataille (“battle”); equivalent to battle +‎ -ous.

Adjective

battailous (comparative more battailous, superlative most battailous)

1. (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.