Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. Obsolete forms of
battle , battler, etc.
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Examples
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As if not contente to haue sayd, that the Frenchmen made bataile with the
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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And the kyng seyng wele that thei wolde not suffre hym to passe withouten bataile, seid to his title mayny, 'Sires and felawes, the yonder men letten us of oure wey; and if thei wol com to us, let every man preve hymself a good man this day, and avaunt banere in the best tyme of the yere.'
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Also this yere was the bataile betwene the Armurer and his man.
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And thei desired that the kyng wold not werre upon them fro that houre at mydnyght, unto the Sonday next after the fest of seint Michel; and but it were so that thei were rescued by bataile of the Frensshe kyng or with the dolphyn by that day, thei to yelde the towne to the kyng, and thei to have theire lives and goodes.
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And thrugh the grace of God the kyng made his heigh wey thrugh the thikkest prees of alle the bataile.
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In this yere the xxij day of Maij was the first bataile at Seint
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[Sidenote: The bataile of Cressy.] [Sidenote: Sege of Caleys.]
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I which began the warre wha [n] your father was Consull/and after ioyned bataile with hym whan he was made Ca - pitayne of the Romayns army/must now come vnarmed to his son to aske peace of hym.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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And he was nephewe by the systers syde to this mad docter: euẽ then playing a part before to these thyngs whych souldiers are wont to do in bataile or robbynge.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Howe in this bataile sir Rafe Percy was sore hurte, and taken prisoner by a scottisshe knyght Cap.C. xliiii.
Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812
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