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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