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battalia arch. or Obs.|bəˈtɑːljə|
Forms: 7– battalia; also 7 batalia -allia -alio, battailia, -alio, -aglio.
[late 16th century a. It. battaglia or ? Sp. batalla (in same sense). The forms battaglio, -alio, etc. are examples of a tendency then common to turn It. and Sp. final -a into -o; see -ado2. Cf. battle, of which this is a doublet.]
1. Mil. Order of battle, battle array; disposition or arrangement of troops (or naval forces) for action. (Usually with prep. in, into.)
1613Chapman Bussy d'Amb. Plays 1873 II. 138, I haue made all his Troopes and Companies Aduance, and put themselues randg'd in Battailia. 1629tr. Herodian (1635) 403 Having marched in battalia over all the plaine. 1645Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 137 They had drawn out in Battalio upon y⊇ side of Nasby hill. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low-C. Warres ix. 46 The ships on both sides put in Battalia. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1869) 479 An Army might enter in Battalia. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xix. vii. (1865) VIII. 235 Friedrich draws out in battalia.
b. fig.1645Sacr. Decretal 4 Draw up all your Instruments of torture and torment in Battalio. 1798W. Hutton Autobiog. 27 Marshalling, in battalia, fifty bright guineas.
†2. A large body of men in battle array, a marshalled force or host, whether constituting the whole of an army, or one of its great divisions or battalions; = battle n. 8. Obs. (cf. battalion 1).
1594Shakes. Rich. III, v. iii. 11 Nor. Six or seuen thousand is their vtmost power. K. Rich. Why, our Battalia trebbles that account. 1639J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 136 If your forces bee divided and your troopes scattered into severall battalios. 1659Gauden Tears of Ch. 366 (D.) The Pope's main Battaglio. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 6 The Rules and Exercise of Architecture, Fortifications, and ordering of Battalia's. 1684Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 500 The general of an army appoints the station of every regiment in a battalia. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 412 A great army..marching towards them in three battalias.
b. fig.; cf. ‘host.’
1653J. Hall Paradoxes 75 The Sunne, the Moone, and all the glorious battalia of heaven. 1668Child Disc. Trade (1698) 44 The gentleman brings up his battalia.
c. (short for ‘main battalia’): The main body of an army, as distinguished from the wings.
1645Sacr. Decretal 14 Wee quickly plac'd Jockey in the right wing, Sir John in the left wing, and Old Nick in the Battalia. 1805Gifford Massinger's Picture ii. i. (1840) 260.
†3. The summons or call to form into line. Obs.
1625Markham Souldiers Accid. 16 The Drum doth beat..a Call, a March..a Battalia, a Charge. |