a. Obs.–1 [ad. obs. F. vainquissant, pres. pple. of vainquir: see VANQUISH v.] Victorious.
1632. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 195. Congratulations she received not as a woman in child-bed, but as a Captaine vanquissant of a battel.
