Battalia

Quick meaning: Battalia is a noun meaning (obsolete, uncountable) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.

Meaning

(obsolete, uncountable) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, countable) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body of the army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear.

Example Sentences

Why, our battalia trebles that account

Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread, / Each in battalia rang'd, and shining arms array'd

[…]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.

Word Forms

• battalias

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include battle, array, battlegroup, battallion, battle line, battalion.

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