Obs. rare–1. [f. late L. type *combattentia: see COMBAT v. The form according to later analogies would be combatancy.] Combatant state, hostility.
1586. Warner, Alb. Eng., IV. xxii. (1612), 106. Or if Combattencie not please, the land is rich and large And they Copertiners may live, and us of death discharge.
