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Noun
battaile (plural battailes)
- Obsolete spelling of battle.
- 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.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 131:1. 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.
1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft: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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