Middle English Dictionary Entry
bataillǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | bataillǒus adj. Also batailous, batailleus, batellous, bataileuse, batelouse, (error) batus. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Excelling in combat; martial; (b) bellicose, pugnacious.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.889 : Mars, the Planete bataillous..doth mervailes Upon the fortune of batailes.
- (c1422) Hoccl.Dial.(Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)592 : Bataillous Mars.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.138r : Shame hit is to a kyng sittyng at a fest be bostful of wordes and be not bataillous in the felde.
- a1450 Who þat liste loke (Stw 951)45/219 : Albyns, þat was a prince ful batailleus..Slewe his enmye as kyng victorieus.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)63 : xl suche batellous knightis as Ayax is.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)139/14 : Cartage the bataileuse [CQ(2): wherin were the god fighters and wise men of warre] .. was of olde tyme so sore redouted by Romayns.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1211 : A cruel man, a bataillous.
- c1400 Wycl.DSins (Bod 647)165 : Bothe mon and beestis ben pure batelouse in tyme of þis dede.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)106/26 : Who hath grete voice and shrylle, he is batailous [Sloane: batus; Lambeth: a fyghter; Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.: loueth batails; L bellicosus] and eloquent.
Note: New form (error: batus). AQ. Postdates sense (b).