battailous

English

Etymology

From Middle English bataillous, 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, The Faerie Queene, I.v:

     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.