battailant

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English

Etymology

From French bataillant, present participle. See battle.

Adjective

battailant (not comparable)

(obsolete) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
- 1591, Ed Sp, “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. , London: William Ponsonbie, , →OCLC:
  An Elephant […] That on his backe did beare (as batteilant)
  A gilden towre.

Noun

battailant (plural battailants)

(obsolete) A combatant.
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. , London: William Stansby, for Ed Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
  he presently thought that he was dead, and that those battaillants that fought so eagerly in the Room, had slain him

References

“battailant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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