bellicostic

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Adjective

bellicostic (comparative more bellicostic, superlative most bellicostic)

  1. (rare) Aggressive, belligerent, warlike.
    • 1975, The Filson Club History Quarterly, volumes 49-50, page 78:
      Religious papers in those days were much more bellicostic than today, and no spirit of irenic ecumenism prevailed.
    • 1981, Choice: Publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a Division of the American Library Association, Volume 19, Issues 1-6, page 438:
      The first of our overseas, modern imperial wars may long be gone from our thoughts, but abiding questions remain — the role of bellicostic politicians and news media, the reluctant chief executive, the imperialist devotees of Alfred Thayer Mahan in uniform and mufti both, and just why it could not have been avoided.
    • 1997, The Literary Griot, volumes 9-10, page 87:
      [] where the range of women's voices move from the celebratory to the bellicostic.