a. arch. Forms: 4 batelouse, -ailous, -aillous, 5 -ellous, -ayllous, 5–6 battelous, 6– -aylous, 7 -ellous, -alouse, 6–9 -ailous, (8 battlous). [a. OF. bataillos (-eus), f. bataille BATTLE: see -OUS.] Fond of fighting, ready for battle; warlike, bellicose, pugnacious.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks. (1871), III. 165. Bothe mon and beestis ben pure batelouse.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 118. Mighty Mars the batailous.
1483. Caxton, Cato, E vi. b. The hors is a beest fyghtyng and batayllous.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 44. With battelous axe in fist.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 2. In sunbright armes, and battailous array.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 81. A fierie Region stretcht In battailous aspect.
1760. Beattie, Pigm. & Cranes, 126. In battailous array display’d.
1876. Lowell, Among my Bks., II. 241. The silent thunders of their battailous armaments.
