a. Obs. [f. BATE sb.1 + -FUL.] Full of strife, quarrelsome, contentious.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, I. (1655), 85 (J.).

        And taught his sheep her sheep in food to thwart,
Which soon as it did bateful question frame, [etc.].

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Conceites (Arb.), 138. Thee surlye God angerd … too wrath towns bat’ful on eggeth.

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