† bellicousadj.
Obsolete.
= bellicose adj.
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society > armed hostility > war > [adjective] > warlike > of persons
fightya1325
fightinga1340
fadea1400
maliciousc1400
warly1423
bellicose1432
warlike1488
bellicous1536
bellosious1606
debellative1651
Tyrtaean1880
warry1901
society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [adjective] > inclined to war
bellicose1432
warful1530
contentious1535
bellicous1536
philopolemic1793
philopolemical1827
warlike1915
war-minded1936
1536 Exhort. Northe in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS I. 304 Cheiff bellicous champions.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. iv. 95 The fault that falleth ordinarily amongest bellicous nations.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 65 The Greekes of the countrie..would soone become a belliquous [printed belliguous] nation.
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