a. [ad. L. bellicōs-us: see -OSE.] Inclined to war or fighting; warlike.
1432–50. trans. Higden (1865), I. 321. Germanye, the peple of whom was … bellicose.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858), I. 134. Our godis aboue … In Albione hes plantit … The perfite pepill, bald and bellicois.
1706. Maule, Hist. Picts, in Misc. Scot., I. 32. The bellicose Romans.
1880. Kinglake, Crimea, VI. iii. 13. Their bellicose names were deceptive.
