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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, uncountable) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action..
[…]but we find, by a sad experience, that few questions are well stated; and when they are, they are not consented to; and when they are agreed on by both sides that they are well stated, it is nothing else but a drawing up the armies in battalia with great skill and discipline; the next thing they do is, they thrust their swords into one another's sides.
Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread, / Each in battalia rang'd, and shining arms array'd
Why, our battalia trebles that account
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Battalia means (obsolete, uncountable) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action..
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[…]but we find, by a sad experience, that few questions are well stated; and when they are, they are not consented to; and when they are agreed on by both sides that they are well stated, it is nothing else but a drawing up the armies in battalia with great skill and discipline; the next thing they do is, they thrust their swords into one another's sides.
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