a. Obs.; also 7– quous. [a. F. belliqueux, ad. L. bellicōsus.] = BELLICOSE.
1536. Exhort. Northe, in Furniv., Ballads, I. 304. Cheiff bellicous champions.
a. 1577. Sir T. Smith, Commw. Eng., 106. Bellicous nations.
1628. Digby, Voy. Medit. (1868), 65. The Greekes of the countrie … would soone become a belliquous [printed belliguous] nation.
