Meaning of battaile | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of battle.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy, […]”

“Against his foes in battaile shewing force, And after fight in victorie remorse.”

“1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book 10, xii Withouten battaile, fight, or stroke at all, / Ev'n at noon day I will you safely guide.”

“1. When ſhall we three meet againe? / In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? / 2. When the Hurly-burley's done, / When the Battaile's loſt, and wonne.”

“Thus Ahab seduced by his false prophets descendeth into the battaile, and is slaine (contemning the words of Michaiah) in[m] whose mouthes the diuell was a lying spirit, who sent of the Lord, perswaded him and prevailed, 1.”

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