Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to war; warlike: as, “bellique Cæsar,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete warlike; martial

Etymologies

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Latin bellicus.

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